I like to report two bugs that are causing problems during installation of GHC and Happy, but are *not* a problem in the fptools, but rather in some other software used during the install: I. GHC seems to have problems with pgcc (Pentium gcc). Situation: Trying to compile GHC 3.02 on Slackware Linux 3.4 (2.x kernel) using pgcc 1.0.3 with GHC 2.10 fails when the newly build compiler attempts to translate the prelude. My guess: pgcc produces wrong code for some of the generated C. II. New bash 2.0 and Solaris sh cannot handle fptool makefiles. Situation: Trying to install Happy 1.5 on Solaris 5.5.1 using either bash 2.0 or Solaris' sh gives a syntax error from the subshell invoked by make. I guess, this problem will also occur when trying to install precompiled versions of ghc, maybe also during installs from source. Problem: The `config-pkgs' target generates empty loops of the form for x in ; do ... done which are ok in bash 1.14, but lead to a syntax error in bash 2.0 and Solaris' sh. I don't know whether this is regarded to be a feature (being more like sh) or bug in bash 2.0. I thought, I let everybody know, because both problems may be rather startling and may take some time to track down. Cheers, Manuel
Problems during installation [was: Re: Problem compiling ghc4.00/2]
Manuel M. T. Chakravarty Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:01:02 +0200 (MET DST)
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