[Haskell-cafe] lhs2tex, Haskell Platform and cygwin

2009-12-17 Thread Jacques Carette
I just downloaded a fresh copy of Haskell Platform, and successfully got cabal to update itself. I installed smallcheck-0.4 successfully too. But then I tried to install lhs2tex, which 'worked' until the point of saying: Linking dist\build\lhs2TeX\lhs2TeX.exe ... Installing executable(s) in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] lhs2tex, Haskell Platform and cygwin

2009-12-17 Thread Stephen Tetley
Hi Jacques Does it install properly by the runhaskell Setup.hs configure / build / install? I re-installed it this way a couple of weeks ago and it never mentioned mktexlsr. From a runhaskell Setup.hs ... install it did have a couple of problems which don't relate to your problem but seem worth

Re: [Haskell-cafe] lhs2tex, Haskell Platform and cygwin

2009-12-17 Thread Jacques Carette
Stephen Tetley wrote: Hi Jacques Does it install properly by the runhaskell Setup.hs configure / build / install? I re-installed it this way a couple of weeks ago and it never mentioned mktexlsr. No, it doesn't. I first run into issues with exceptions-related issues (as you did), which I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] lhs2tex, Haskell Platform and cygwin

2009-12-17 Thread Stephen Tetley
2009/12/17 Jacques Carette care...@mcmaster.ca: mktexlsr is a /bin/sh script, so it's quite natural that an Exec on that would fail.  So I'm still stuck. Ah ha - yes running mktexlsr is an optional step on page 5 of the lhs2TeX manual necessary to get the poly style. I tried a couple of hacks

Re: [Haskell-cafe] lhs2tex, Haskell Platform and cygwin

2009-12-17 Thread Jacques Carette
Some success now. Reverting to building by hand, if I 1. edit config.ml to put quotes around the name of the GHC executable (since it contains spaces AND () ), 2. edit Makefile to add -package base-3.0.3.1 on to the --make line, things proceed through the build and install stage properly.