Submitted to haskell list, but I'm forwarding it to ghc-bugs
instead, since that's what it concerns. [Hope that's ok, John.]
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From: john_r_velman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 14:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Catch 22?
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've been using HUGS for a few weeks, learning Haskell, and fairly
excited about it. When I saw the GHC 4 announcement, I decided to try
to install GHC. But..
My hardware/OS platform is NT4.0SP3 on a pentium, 64M memory, plenty
of disk space. I've installed cyg-win32, and a lot of the gnu-win32
utilities and applications that I use, including perl. The cyg-win
version is B19.3, with egcs 1.1. I compiled HUGS with this setup with
no problems.
>From the announcement I see that I need an installed GHC version 2.10
or better to install 4.0.
Well I downloaded that, and reading the documentation I see that I
need cyg-win B18. My reading of the cyg-win material and mailing list
leads me to believe that things that need B-18 might not work with
B-19. So, I decided to try to compile GHC 3.0 from source (previously
downloaded, but waiting for my attention).
Now, the GHC3.0 configure file (in the topmost directory fptools)
finishes up with this sequence:
....
checking for tar... /usr/bin/tar
checking for gzip... /bin/gzip
checking for happy... no
checking for version of happy...
Happy version 1.4 or later is required to compile GHC.
bash-2.01$
Now, I'm also under the impression that I need GHC to install Happy.
Is there a way out of this?
Thanks,
John Velman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
