interpreter in 5.04.3

Simon Marlow simonmar@microsoft.com
Fri, 9 May 2003 10:04:41 +0100


> *
> Is it possible to build  ghc-5.04.3 =20
> with interpreter?
> For we have installed it from RPM, and it reports that  ghci
> would not work.

Details, details!  Platform, OS version, which RPM did you install, what
command line did you issue and what was the error message?

[snip]
> This DoCon installation aims at the following meaning:
>=20
>   initially,  HSdocon.o, libHSdocon.a  are absent,
>   compile DoCon modules
>   making libraries  $(e)/HSdocon.o, $(e)/libHSdocon.a,
>   and these libraries have to link when using the  package docon.
>=20
> It works in  ghc-5.02
> =20
>              (see  haskell.org/docon,  version 2.06,  Makefile),
>=20
> and quotations look all right, because it is in Makefile and it=20
> issues `echo' ...
> But in  ghc-5.04.3,  Makefile needs to skip "HSdocon",
> and someone has to set it to  docon.conf  after the installation.=20
>=20
> Maybe, it is a trivial question, but still I wonder how to improve
> Makefile in a proper way.

I still can't tell what's wrong.

You need to show us the *actual* contents of docon.conf, and where
exactly does the library libHSdocon.a reside?

Cheers,
	Simon