1) I did an Ubuntu purge followed by an install. Afterwards I rebuilt ghc 6.8.2. The same d*mn "unknown package: unix-2.3.0.0" message when I try to build
unix and bytestring via runhaskell Setup.hs configure. 2) This strongly looks like the package database manager, i.e. ghc-pkg. Source please so I can understand where this d*amn "unknown package: unix-2.3.0.0" message is coming from and why? 3) Serious rant mode on ... I am a computer industry veteran(decades) who is trying to convince, coggle, etc. younger colleagues about the usefulness of FPLs for correctness, etc, and then => "unknown package ....". V. On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2008, at 12:27 , Galchin, Vasili wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/FTP/Haskell/unix-2.2.0.0$ runhaskell Setup.hs cleanup > > unknown package: unix-2.3.0.0 > > > > no it doesn't. > > > > I suspect the Cabal stuff has a dependency on the unix package (at least > on POSIXish systems, probably via the filepath stuff) and by deregistering > unix-2.3.0.0 which Cabal was built against you broke it. Probably you need > to do a full reinstall of GHC to recover at this point. > > > -- > brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH > > >
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