Re: Problems building nhc98 with ghc-5.04

Oliver Braun <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Jul 2002 12:01:48 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.haskell.nhc.bugs
Organization	University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

* Malcolm Wallace <[email protected]> [2002-07-23 10:44]:
> > when building nhc98 with ghc-5.04 I got the following error:
> > 
> > Fail: Can't find module PrelBase in
> >         .
> >   Or in standard libraries at
> >         /usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/base
> >         ...
> >   Asked for by: Decl.lhs
> > [Check settings of -I or -P flags?]
> >
> > Anyway, this seems to be a ghc bug, since ghc is looking for
> > PrelBase even though it is not needed for ghc-5.04

> The error message is generated by hmake, not by GHC, so the fault is
> probably in the automatic configuration of the ghc settings in hmake.
> I would guess that perhaps hmake has not detected ghc's version
> number correctly?

> Look in lib/ix86-FreeBSD/hmakerc, particularly for the definition

>      cppSymbols = ["__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=504"]

> and edit it if necessary.  (Of course, we'd really like to know why it
> wasn't detected in the first place.)

lib/ix86-FreeBSD/hmakerc looks ok. Find it attached.

Regards,
         Olli
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hmakerc (text/plain, 3 KB)

HmakeConfig
  { defaultCompiler = "ghc"
  , knownCompilers =
    [ CompilerConfig
      { compilerStyle = nhc98
      , compilerPath = "/usr/freebsdcvs/ports/lang/nhc98/work/nhc98-1.14/script/nhc98"
      , compilerVersion = "v1.14"
      , includePaths = ["/usr/freebsdcvs/ports/lang/nhc98/work/nhc98-1.14/include"]
      , cppSymbols = ["__NHC__"]
      , extraCompilerFlags = []
      , isHaskell98 = True
      }
    , CompilerConfig
      { compilerStyle = nhc98
      , compilerPath = "/usr/local/bin/nhc98"
      , compilerVersion = "v1.14"
      , includePaths = ["/usr/local/include/nhc98"]
      , cppSymbols = ["__NHC__"]
      , extraCompilerFlags = []
      , isHaskell98 = True
      }
    , CompilerConfig
      { compilerStyle = nhc98
      , compilerPath = "nhc98"
      , compilerVersion = "v1.14"
      , includePaths = ["/usr/local/include/nhc98"]
      , cppSymbols = ["__NHC__"]
      , extraCompilerFlags = []
      , isHaskell98 = True
      }
    , CompilerConfig
      { compilerStyle = ghc
      , compilerPath = "/usr/local/bin/ghc"
      , compilerVersion = "5.04"
      , includePaths = ["/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/base"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/haskell98"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/network"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/haskell-src"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/lang"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/concurrent"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/posix"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/util"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/data"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/text"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/net"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/hssource"
                       ]
      , cppSymbols = ["__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=504"]
      , extraCompilerFlags = []
      , isHaskell98 = True
      }
    , CompilerConfig
      { compilerStyle = ghc
      , compilerPath = "ghc"
      , compilerVersion = "5.04"
      , includePaths = ["/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/base"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/haskell98"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/network"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/haskell-src"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/lang"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/concurrent"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/posix"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/util"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/data"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/text"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/net"
                       ,"/usr/local/lib/ghc-5.04/imports/hssource"
                       ]
      , cppSymbols = ["__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=504"]
      , extraCompilerFlags = []
      , isHaskell98 = True
      }
    ]
  }