[Haskell-cafe] Re: HS-Plugins 1.0 chokes on simple test, WinXP GHC-6.6

[Claus Reinke]

> I'm running cygwin on WinXP and got a different failure (below) from the
> latest darcs hs-plugins.  Line 11 is right after the TOP definition.  Does
> anyone have a theory about what's going on here? - Conal

looks like the TOP and GHC_LIB_PATH values are the output of external
commands, such as ghc --print-libdir, and someone forgot to remove the
linefeeds from the output before inserting it in the script?

claus
 
> configure:1954: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
> conftest.c:11: error: missing terminating " character
> conftest.c:14: error: missing terminating " character
> configure:1957: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was:
> | /* confdefs.h.  */
> |
> | #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
> | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
> | #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
> | #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
> | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
> | #define CYGWIN 1
> | #define LEADING_UNDERSCORE 1
> | #define TOP "c:\\Haskell\\hs-plugins
> "
> | #define WITH_GHC "ghc"
> | #define GHC_LIB_PATH "c:/ghc/ghc-6.6
> "
> | /* end confdefs.h.  */
> |
> | int
> | main ()
> | {
> |
> |   ;
> |   return 0;
> | }
> configure:1996: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> 
> 
> On 3/9/07, Alistair Bayley <alistair at abayley.org> wrote:
>>
>> > You managed to build the darcs version under ghc 6.6?
>> >
>> > For me runghc setup.hs configure fails
>> > with lots of strange error messages... (below)
>> > other packages build ok.
>> >
>> > Rene.
>> >
>> > C:\repos\hs-plugins>darcs pull
>> > plink: unknown option "-O"
>> > Pulling from "http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/hs-plugins"...
>> > No remote changes to pull in!
>> >
>> > C:\repos\hs-plugins>runghc Setup.lhs configure
>>
>> I used an MSYS shell on Windows. It doesn't build with ghc/cabal on a
>> basic windows box - you need some sort of Unix clone. Looks like
>> you're using cygwin, I think ('cause you still have paths starting
>> with C:\).
>>
>> Alistair
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