[Haskell-beginners] how long it will take to install Haskell

[aditya siram]

I dunno, I've had the network package take a long time (almost 4
minutes) to compile. Doesn't matter if it is the Haskell platform or
manual install.
-deech

On 3/18/10, Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> wrote:
> Excerpts from love_pku's message of Thu Mar 18 05:46:41 +0100 2010:
>> Dear Sir or Madam:
>> I met problems when install haskell. Following are the interface after
>> do the command 'make',and it stay at the state 'Linking Setup'for a
>> long time. So I am wondering how long it will take to finish 'linking
>> setup'.
>
> Depends on your computer :)
>
> Seriously it shouldn't take that long.
>
> Try watching your CPU usage (eg using top) and see whether ghc or a
> linker is still working.
>
> A bug report or help request should contain enough information so that
> other know what you've been trying to do. You say 'installing haskell'.
> There is no such "haskell". There are 4 or more Haskell compilers this
> could refer to. So try providing more context such as:
>
>   My CPU is (If you use a 16Mhz embedded machine it's obvious why its taking
> that
>   long..):
>     # cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep model\ name
>     model name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E6750  @ 2.66GHz
>     model name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E6750  @ 2.66GHz
>
>   My operating system is xx-Linux.
>
>   I'm trying to install glasgow Haskell from sources (give version,
>   please)
>
>   I'm trying to bootstrap ghc using ghc compiler: ...
>
>
>   Then it seems to stop at this line:
>   ghc --make ...
>
>   and nothing happens. Have I hit a bug or such?
>
>
> Try to provide more context and people will try to help you.
>
> Also note that there are two chatrooms: #haskell and #ghc on
> irc.freenode.org. People may help you faster there and figure out what
> exactly is wrong with your setup.
>
> Depending on the additional information about operating system maybe
> this thread should be moved to a more appropriate mailinglist.
>
>
> Also try to find that directory it was trying to run Setup in and run
> that ghc command manually (ghc has some verbose options you can apply)
>
> Marc Weber
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