Re: Hat hasn't installed properly

Further update to this - the latest patch did not succed with fixing  
at least my complaint.  Where exactly should the various hi files get  
copied to?  Where in the install script is the code that should do this?

Bob

On 3 Nov 2006, at 16:43, Thomas Davie wrote:

> The reason that the package is not there I have discovered is that  
> ghc-pkg register quits out because libHShat.a does not exist.   
> Putting that in the appropriate place causes ghc-pkg register to  
> work, but then you get errors because the hat-libs aren't in the  
> right places.
>
> I'm not quite sure where the hat libs should be going.
>
> Bob
>
> On 3 Nov 2006, at 16:22, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
>
>> Thomas Davie <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Something's up with hat-2.05 on my system.  It hasn't installed its
>>> package correctly.  ./configure, make, sudo make install reported no
>>> errors, but trying to build using 'hmake -hat' produces this error:
>>>
>>> ghc-6.6: unknown package: hat
>>
>> I don't know why the hat package is not installed on your system.   
>> But I
>> did find some packaging errors that mean, even it hat was  
>> installed, it
>> would not work with ghc-6.6.
>>
>> Essentially, ghc now needs to know both the package name _and  
>> version_
>> when building the library, otherwise the linker gets confused and  
>> can't
>> resolve names.  I've pushed a fix to the darcs repo, and will  
>> probably
>> re-roll the 2.05 distribution as well.
>>
>> Regards,
>>     Malcolm
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