On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 12:28 -0600, Jeff Wheeler wrote: > On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 18:24 +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > > > In my experience, it usually fails because of missing dependencies like > > > zlib-dev on my own system, but those are easy to fix, at which point I > > > can rerun the bootstrap script. > > > > Patches accepted. > > Without digressing too much, I don't think much can be done here. I > would not (and should not) expect the bootstrap.sh file to use apt to > get the missing dependencies as I had to do. > > I don't think there's any general solution to this, beyond better error > handling (which apparently you just improved).
It'll still fall over when it fails to find the zlib C lib. That's a slightly more general issue: Check for required C libraries during configure http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/262 Again, patches gratefully accepted :-) Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe