FW: Problems with the directory package on windows

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Friends

Can anyone help Tim with this?

Tim, it'd be a good idea to say what version of Cabal you are using (cabal --version).  Also you can download a pre-compiled cabal binary I believe, which would save you cabal-installing it.  (Although it seems bad that you can get into a situation where that's necesary.)

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Sheard [mailto:sheard at cs.pdx.edu] 
Sent: 28 January 2011 22:48
To: Simon Peyton-Jones
Subject: Problems with the directory package on windows

Simon,

I have been wrestling with following problem. I cannot get the Directory 
package to install on
windows.  Normally this comes with the Haskell Platform, but out of the 
box, it
gives an error message that it can't find the directory package, even 
though ghc-pkg says its there.
If you try and install it you get:

Resolving dependencies...
Downloading directory-1.1.0.0...
Configuring directory-1.1.0.0...
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-compiler
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.exe
checking for suffix of executables... .exe
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating include/HsDirectoryConfig.h
config.status: include/HsDirectoryConfig.h is unchanged
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-compiler
cabal.exe: Missing dependency on a foreign library:
* Missing header file: HsDirectory.h
This problem can usually be solved by installing the system package that
provides this library (you may need the "-dev" version). If the library is
already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the flags
--extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where it is.
cabal.exe: Error: some packages failed to install:
directory-1.1.0.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1

Some one suggested I need to update cabal, but cabal needs directory so 
it won't update,
and both  cabal install cabal-install
                   cabal install cabal
end in exactly the same kind of error.
Have you ever seen this problem. I have searched everywhere for similar 
questions
and have struggled several weeks with this.  Any suggestions.

Tim Sheard