On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 08:33 -0400, Ben Gamari wrote: > Sergei Meshveliani <mech...@botik.ru> writes: > > > People, > > I am trying to `make' ghc-7.10.1 from source by ghc-7.8.3 > > on Debian Linux. > > I command > > > > > ./configure --prefix=/home/mechvel/haskell/ghc/7.10.1/inst0 > > > > > make >& make.log > > > > > > The former command seems successful: > > ... > > #define HAVE_EVENTFD 1 #define CC_SUPPORTS_TLS 1 > > > > configure: exit 0 > > > > > > The latter command reports > > > > --------------------------------------- > > ... > > ... > > checking whether to build static libraries... yes > > checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp > > configure: error: in > > `/home/mechvel/haskell/ghc/7.10.1/libffi/build/x86_64-unkn\ > > own-linux-gnu': > > configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check > > See `config.log' for more details > > --------------------------------------- > > > What does `which cpp` output? I would expect to find it in `/usr/bin`, > not `/lib`. Are you certain you have Debian's `build-essential` package > installed?
cpp is indeed in usr/bin/. My colleague (who knows more of Linux) has discovered that this fail is due to that g++ is absent for the used gcc-4.4.5 version. Installing this g++ version makes this `make' successful. Thanks, ------ Sergei _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
