[Haskell-cafe] building the unix package and cabal

[Thomas Schilling]

I don't know.  Maybe someone on @cafe can help. (I CC'd)

On Feb 4, 2008 5:22 PM, Galchin Vasili <vigalchin at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have the gmp shared objects installed, i.e. .so's. Does ghc require static
> linking with .a archive files?
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> On 2/4/08, Thomas Schilling <nominolo at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > This is the GNU Multi-Precision library.  You have to install that
> > separately, Cabal can't do that for you.  You should use the redhat
> > package manager to install it. HTH
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> > On Feb 4, 2008 4:43 PM, Galchin Vasili <vigalchin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Thomas,
> > >
> > >     Have you tried to build this package yourself? I get a linker error
> ..
> > > unresolved symbol "gmp".
> > >
> > > Vasili
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> > > On 2/4/08, Thomas Schilling <nominolo at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > > Build-type: Configure means that *Cabal uses ./configure * to build
> > > > the package.  Nothing changes for you.  Just use the usual:
> > > >
> > > > runhaskell Setup.hs configure --prefix=... [--user]
> > > > runhaskell Setup.hs build
> > > > runhaskell Setup.hs install
> > > >
> > > > or with cabal-install:
> > > >
> > > > cabal install unix
> > > >
> > > > 2008/2/4 Galchin Vasili <vigalchin at gmail.com>:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > >       I have been trying to build the unix package on RedHat RHEL 5.
> > > Over
> > > > > the weekend I read through the Cabal documentation. The unix-2.2.0.0
> > > > > unix.cabal specifies the "build-type" attribute as "Configure".
> Based on
> > > > > Cabal doc, I should run ./configure. After this step then what?
> Bottom
> > > line
> > > > > is how do I build the unix-2.2.0.0 package on RHEL 5?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thank you, Vasili
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