To make sure it wasn't missed, I am pasting below the following Haskell Platform build issue that was reported on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1f8730/basic_guide_on_how_to_install_ghcplatform_manually/ Just to clarify: I did not report this issue, and I don't know anything more about it beyond what is below. If more information is needed, perhaps replying on the reddit thread would be helpful. -Yitz --- (snip) --- A few of us in my department just tested this out and ran into an issue. Just thought I'd post our solution in case it helps anyone else. For context, we are using departmental computers that do not allow the use of sudo, so all installs must be local. Additionally, the Linux distribution we use is a modified version of Slackware 13.37 If, when running make in the haskell-platform directory you run into an error like this: Setup: Use of GHC's environment variable GHC_PACKAGE_PATH is incompatible with Cabal. Use the flag --package-db to specify a package database (it can be used multiple times). Error: Configuring the HUnit-1.2.5.2 package failed make: *** [build.stamp] Error 2 It could be because the build script is setting GHC_PACKAGE_PATH when it doesn't need to. Our fix was to remove line 69 from the scripts/build.sh file. This line looks like: GHC_PACKAGE_PATH="${ORIG_GHC_PACKAGE_PATH}" \. After removing that line, run make clean and then start the process again (./configure ...). _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
