Re: ghc-4.06-1.src.rpm (was: ghc to be dropped from potato (debian)

2000-03-15 Thread Peter Hancock
"Manuel" == Manuel M T Chakravarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As already pointed out by some people, you need the DocBook tools to build the documentation. After a _lot_ of ferreting round the net, I found db2dvi in stylesheets-0.10-2.i386.rpm. (Actually, it's not in

Re: ghc-4.06-1.src.rpm (was: ghc to be dropped from potato (debian)

2000-03-15 Thread Frank Atanassow
Peter Hancock writes: After a _lot_ of ferreting round the net, I found db2dvi in stylesheets-0.10-2.i386.rpm. (Actually, it's not in docbook-3.1-5.i386.rpm, or psgml-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm, or sgml-tools-1.0.9-5.i386.rpm, or jade-1.2.1-9.i386.rpm, or ...) The adjective `exotic' seems apt.

Re: ghc-4.06-1.src.rpm (was: ghc to be dropped from potato (debian)

2000-03-15 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Peter Hancock wrote: says that the project has been suspended.) I suppose the problem here is that the ghc people (laudably, sensibly, etc, ..) want a doc package that makes rtf as well as the usual unix doc formats. It was more that we wanted a package that was easy to

Re: ghc-4.06-1.src.rpm (was: ghc to be dropped from potato (debian)

2000-03-15 Thread Ganesh Sittampalam
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:27:56 + (GMT), you uttered: It would be great if at least one haskell system could get into the standard linux distributions. ... Sure - any idea how to get Red Hat to include the stuff? I've asked a (busy) friend who works for redhat. I'll pass on

ghc-4.06-1.src.rpm (was: ghc to be dropped from potato (debian)

2000-03-14 Thread Peter Hancock
Somewhat related to this, ghc-4.06-1.src.rpm has a problem. It builds OK (taking several hours on my machine) till the very end, then dies trying to invoke some program called db2dvi. I can't find a redhat package that contains this. It would be great if at least one haskell system could get

Re: ghc-4.06-1.src.rpm (was: ghc to be dropped from potato (debian)

2000-03-14 Thread Michael Hudson
Peter Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Somewhat related to this, ghc-4.06-1.src.rpm has a problem. It builds OK (taking several hours on my machine) till the very end, then dies trying to invoke some program called db2dvi. I can't find a redhat package that contains this. Well, it

Re: ghc-4.06-1.src.rpm (was: ghc to be dropped from potato (debian)

2000-03-14 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Peter Hancock wrote: Somewhat related to this, ghc-4.06-1.src.rpm has a problem. It builds OK (taking several hours on my machine) till the very end, then dies trying to invoke some program called db2dvi. I can't find a redhat package that contains this. See the

Re: ghc-4.06-1.src.rpm (was: ghc to be dropped from potato (debian)

2000-03-14 Thread Ronald J. Legere
I really keep hoping someone will make ghc (esp when merged with hugs) much easier to set up and use. I would love to just be able to do an install-shield install on windows for example. I realize that it is somewhat silly to make such demands of people doing this of there own free will, but

Re: ghc-4.06-1.src.rpm (was: ghc to be dropped from potato (debian)

2000-03-14 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
Peter Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, Somewhat related to this, ghc-4.06-1.src.rpm has a problem. It builds OK (taking several hours on my machine) till the very end, then dies trying to invoke some program called db2dvi. I can't find a redhat package that contains this. As already