While trying to test 6.10, I ran into the issue that a number of the libraries it wants are not installed by default, and are most conveniently added via Fink. This includes gmp, binutils, readline, etc.
/sw/ is not in the default gcc path, of course, so the usual solution is to add -I/sw/include, -L/sw/lib, etc. to it via the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS environment variables, which are supported by most[1] autoconf-based packages. The help text for ghc's configure script does in fact suggest that this is the case, and it has some code meant to read it; broken code, as it happens. As it is, the script fails to propagate those variables to whatever is responsible for compiling the RTS, which fails with a missing gmp.h, bfd.h, and so on. All those files exist live quite happily in /sw/include, and would no doubt appreciate visiting makefiles. So my question is two-fold: Is the help file wrong? Is there some other way to do it? Or is this in fact a bug, and if so, will any of you volunteer to fix it for me? ^_^ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
