Installing GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X Leopard (x86)
As reported in glasgow-haskell-users, you need to be a bit careful to use this configuration.
Although I took care of those libgmp and readline dependency thingies, following error was persistent when I tried to build it:
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installPackage: Multiple files with extension buildinfo
make[1]: *** [install.library.Cabal] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 2
Under libraries/Cabal directory there was a file named buildinfo2.buildinfo, but no other file with .buildinfo extension... yes, actually there was, it was ._buildinfo2.buildinfo. After removing this file the build was successful.
It was likely that this offensive file snuck into there during preparing the archive. I expanded the archive using tar command on the command line, but I should have used the Archive Utility, which handles those dot-files correctly.
Anyhow, that's how I wasted my precious four nights :-(
Although I took care of those libgmp and readline dependency thingies, following error was persistent when I tried to build it:
... snipped
installPackage: Multiple files with extension buildinfo
make[1]: *** [install.library.Cabal] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 2
Under libraries/Cabal directory there was a file named buildinfo2.buildinfo, but no other file with .buildinfo extension... yes, actually there was, it was ._buildinfo2.buildinfo. After removing this file the build was successful.
It was likely that this offensive file snuck into there during preparing the archive. I expanded the archive using tar command on the command line, but I should have used the Archive Utility, which handles those dot-files correctly.
Anyhow, that's how I wasted my precious four nights :-(
posted by kazuya at
00:06
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