Re:The Haskell Platform: a single, standard Haskell distribu...
by jamesbritt on Friday May 08, 2009 @01:33AM
(#599251)
This install 6.10.2, right?
I grabbed the generic source installer bundle.
When I run ./configure, it tells me
configure: error: The Haskell Platform version 2009.2.0 requires ghc-6.10.2
The requirement to have a working GHC in order to get a working GHC, while interesting, seems a perplexing roadblock.
But extra puzzling is the requirement to have already the same version of GHC that this is supposed to be installing.
What sense does this make?
I really like Haskell from what I've seen so far, but every time I try to explore something that requires more than one or two packages it feels like a test of cunning, will power, and patience to get all the right pieces and version in place.
(BTW, I have GHC 6.11.20090501 installed via darcs source. Apparently this is not enough:
I grabbed the generic source installer bundle.
When I run ./configure, it tells me
configure: error: The Haskell Platform version 2009.2.0 requires ghc-6.10.2
The requirement to have a working GHC in order to get a working GHC, while interesting, seems a perplexing roadblock.
But extra puzzling is the requirement to have already the same version of GHC that this is supposed to be installing.
What sense does this make?
I really like Haskell from what I've seen so far, but every time I try to explore something that requires more than one or two packages it feels like a test of cunning, will power, and patience to get all the right pieces and version in place.
(BTW, I have GHC 6.11.20090501 installed via darcs source. Apparently this is not enough:
./configure --enable-unsupported-ghc-version ... [much stuff] ...
checking for GL/glut.h... no configure: error: The GLUT C library is required
:(
I appreciate the effort and the ambition, but it's still too tricky.