Thanks Duncan, yes 'uname -a' shows i686. I was confused because the cpu is EM46T, I don't know why uname does not say x86_64.
Yes, a better failure mode would indeed be helpful! Frederik On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 08:38:57AM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 03:42 +0100, Frederik Eaton wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I found that the distribution at this URL > > > > http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.6.1/ghc-6.6.1-x86_64-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 > > > > failed to install. There were lots of "no such file or directory" > > errors during 'cp' invocations I think. The i386 version sems to work > > fine. Hope this isn't a mistake on my part. > > I found the opposite, that the i386 version had lots of errors with 'cp' > invocations. It turned out that it was my fault as I was accidentally > using the i386 .tar.tbz when the machine I was using was in fact an > x86-64 running in 64bit mode. > > So check your uname -a, is it i686 or x86_64? > > That said, the failure mode in this case could be friendlier and less > confusing. > > Duncan > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs > -- http://ofb.net/~frederik/ _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list Glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
