Debian configuration issue that bears upon GHC

[Tim Chevalier]

On 1/28/08, Norman Ramsey <nr at eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:
> GHC developers take note: when building GHC on a new machine, I
> encountered a Debian configuration which contained autoreconf but not
> automake.  The attempt to build GHC failed because autoreconf called
> automake, which was not present.
>

Yes, I've run into this before. See:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1299
Or at least, it sounds like you're describing the same problem I ran
into (I'm a Ubuntu user, but same difference.)

[trimmed replies at least for my reply, which isn't too relevant to
non-GHC people.]

Cheers,
Tim

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