[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: The Haskell Platform 2009.2.0.2

[Paulo Tanimoto]

Hi Alecs,

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Alecs King<alecsk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the hard work.
>
> But there's a problem of the source tarball.  scripts/build.sh skips
> building already-installed pkgs -- but scripts/install.sh does not skip
> installing them.  So 'make install' fails (err: "The ${PKG}/Setup script
> does not exist or cannot be run") if there are some pkgs that have been
> skipped building.
>
> A quick(-and-dirty) hot fix: -- code copied from build.sh
>
> ---
>  scripts/install.sh |   18 ++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> Index: haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2/scripts/install.sh
> ===================================================================
> --- haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2.orig/scripts/install.sh
> +++ haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2/scripts/install.sh
> @@ -34,13 +34,23 @@ install_pkg () {
>   fi
>  }
>
> +# Is this exact version of the package already installed?
> +is_pkg_installed () {
> +  PKG_VER=$1
> +  grep " ${PKG_VER} " installed.packages > /dev/null 2>&1
> +}
> +
>  # Actually do something!
>  cd packages
>  for pkg in `cat platform.packages`; do
> -  cd "${pkg}" || die "The directory for the component ${PKG} is missing"
> -  echo "Installing ${pkg}..."
> -  install_pkg ${pkg}
> -  cd ..
> +  if is_pkg_installed "${pkg}"; then
> +    echo "Platform package ${pkg} is already installed. Skipping..."
> +  else
> +    cd "${pkg}" || die "The directory for the component ${PKG} is missing"
> +    echo "Installing ${pkg}..."
> +    install_pkg ${pkg}
> +    cd ..
> +  fi
>  done
>
>  echo
>
>
> --
> Alecs King


Yes, I ran into that too.  There's a ticket here:

http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/84

Thanks!

Paulo