Hi Bit, On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:05:23PM +0200, Bit Connor wrote: > > First I tried the binary version ghc-6.10.1-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 > and I very quickly get this error: > > $ ./configure > checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu > checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu > checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu > Which we'll further canonicalise into: i386-unknown-linux > checking for path to top of build tree... configure: error: cannot > determine current directory > $
This probably means your libc is too old for the bindist to work. Presumably running utils/pwd/pwd forwardslash gives a SIGFPE or similar? > Next I tried building the source version ghc-6.10.1-src.tar.bz2 using > ghc 6.6 that is already installed. configure works but make eventually > dies with: > > ... > Configuring ghc-6.10.1... > cabal-bin: At least the following dependencies are missing: > Cabal -any, This is the output of a cabal-bin command, right? Appending -v to the commandline might shed some light on what's going wrong. Or if that doesn't help, try "-v 3". Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe