Re: Unable to build 7.10.1 RC1 on Jessie

2015-01-25 Thread harry
Thank you Sven and Brandon for your help. I'm now able to build 7.10. -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Unable-to-build-7-10-1-RC1-on-Jessie-tp5764254p5764259.html Sent from the Haskell - Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Unable to build 7.10.1 RC1 on Jessie

2015-01-25 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 9:43 AM, harry wrote: > According to https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9720 > > , g++ isn't even > used for building. and "passing in gcc for CXX seems to work fine." Wonder > if that's changed. > It may be that some minimal amount of C++ support was added just to m

Re: Unable to build 7.10.1 RC1 on Jessie

2015-01-25 Thread harry
According to https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9720, g++ isn't even used for building. and "passing in gcc for CXX seems to work fine." Wonder if that's changed. -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Unable-to-build-7-10-1-RC1-on-Jessie-tp5764254p5764257.ht

Re: Unable to build 7.10.1 RC1 on Jessie

2015-01-25 Thread harry
Sven Panne-2 wrote > Perhaps there is no C++ compiler installed? Try to add "g++" to your > "apt-get install" command line. Is g++ a new requirement? I didn't need it for building 7.8.4. -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Unable-to-build-7-10-1-RC1-on-Jessie-

Re: Unable to build 7.10.1 RC1 on Jessie

2015-01-25 Thread Sven Panne
2015-01-25 11:18 GMT+01:00 harry : > [..] This can be reproduced by running the following commands in the > debian:jessie docker image: > > apt-get update > apt-get install ncurses-dev curl gcc ghc make libgmp-dev xz-utils > curl > http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.1-rc1/ghc-7.10.0.20141222-sr

Unable to build 7.10.1 RC1 on Jessie

2015-01-25 Thread harry
I'm trying to build 7.10.1 RC on Debian Jessie. I get an error: configure: error: in `/ghc-7.10.0.20141222/libffi/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu': configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check config.log shows: configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h */ | #define PACKAG