[Haskell-cafe] the "process" package ...

[Galchin, Vasili]

To be honest I'd not bother. You already have the version of the process
> package that came with ghc and there are no new releases that you need.
> That's why nobody else noticed the problem, because nobody needs to
> install this package, because it comes with ghc.
>

       problem here Duncan .. when I run "cabal install haskelldb" e.g.
"process" is rightly seen as a dependency BUT unrightly as not currently
installed .... ???

>
> If you really want to re-install it anyway then you could use the darcs
> version that goes with the ghc-6.8.x branch:
>
> http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc-6.8/packages/process
>
> Obviously in principle the version on hackage should have worked. You'll
> be glad to know that hackage now checks that packages that use
> build-type Configure do indeed actually have a ./configure file, so this
> particular error cannot be repeated.
>
> Duncan
>
> > Regards, Vasili
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Duncan Coutts
> > <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> >         On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 00:36 -0500, Galchin, Vasili wrote:
> >         > Hi Duncan,
> >         >
> >         >      In reality there is a complaint about no "configure"
> >         file. In any
> >         > case, you really mean "autoconf" and not "autoreconf" yes?
> >         If I should
> >         > run "autoconf", there is no configure.ac or configure.in
> >         file under
> >         > the process directory! ??
> >
> >
> >         Ah, you're using process-1.0.0.0 from hackage. It does indeed
> >         appear to
> >         be borked because it specifies build-type: Configure and yet
> >         contains
> >         no ./configure script.
> >
> >         Sorry, I assumed that you were missing ./configure because you
> >         were
> >         using the darcs version.
> >
> >         Duncan
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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