[Gtkhs] installing gtk+hs on debian

[Eric Chi-Liang Mak]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Jens Petersen wrote:

> >>>>> "ECM" == Eric Chi-Liang Mak <ecma808 at cse.unsw.EDU.AU> writes:
>
>     ECM> Hi all, I'm trying to install gtk+hs 0.15.2 on a
>     ECM> debian testing box (ghc 5.04.3 deb package, c2hs
>     ECM> 0.10.17 compiled from source), and am having
>     ECM> problems. configure works fine, but when I run
>     ECM> make, c2hs chokes on my glib header files as
>     ECM> follows:
>
>     ECM> Daedalus:~/gtk+hs-0.15.2$ make Entering preparation
>     ECM> phase...  make[1]: Entering directory
>     ECM> `/home/aesthiri/gtk+hs-0.15.2/glib'
>     ECM> /usr/local/bin/c2hs
>     ECM> --cppopts="-I/usr/include/gtk-1.2
>     ECM> -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include
>     ECM> -D_REENTRANT" glib.h GList.chs c2hs: Error limit of
>     ECM> 20 errors has been reached.
>     ECM> /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:36: (column 0)
>     ECM> [ERROR]
>     >>>> Lexical error!
>     ECM>   The character '#' does not fit here; skipping it.
>     ECM> /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:37: (column 1)
>     ECM> [ERROR]
>     >>>> Lexical error!
>     ECM>   The character '#' does not fit here; skipping it.
>     ECM> /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:38: (column 1)
>     ECM> [ERROR]
>     >>>> Lexical error!
>     ECM>   The character '#' does not fit here; skipping it.
>
> Sounds kind of familiar, but I don't remember exactly right
> now.  Just a wild guess but what happens if you build with
> LANG=C btw?
>
> Jens
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Hi Jens,

Thanks for replying - still stuck on this. LANG=C when I got this error.

Cheers,
Eric