[wxhaskell-users] Problems building wxHaskell 0.9.4-1 on Debian unstable with GHC 6.2.2

[Martin G. <ma...@cs...>]

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wxHello,

today I built wxHaskell from source and want to share my experience,
so that the build process can (hopefully) be fixed.

* The first problem is that the permissions on the package.conf file
  (located at /usr/lib/ghc-6.2.2 in my setup) are set incorrectly.
  I don't know whether that is a GHC or wxHaskell problem, but it
  leads to problems when building an example after installing, because
  the package.conf file is not world-readable.

* Second, but unfortunately not reproducible, I sometimes got linking
  errors about not finding symbols from the Parsec library.  This is
  possibly related, because maybe the package.conf file is in a broken
  state while GHC searches for the Parsec binaries.  Since I recompiled
  wxHaskell a dozen times, with manual chmod and/or removal of the
  package.conf file, I have not been able to reproduce the setup for
  which this problem occurs.  Maybe someone else has had a similar
  experience?

* It is not as easy as implied by the building instructions to install
  wxHaskell to another directory, because then the runtime loader will
  not find the libraries.  You either have to install in some standard
  place (/usr, /usr/local, if that's in your ld.so.conf) or to modify
  /etc/ld.so.conf -- not a nice alternative.  I know that this is a general
  problem, but maybe it could be mentioned on the installation page.

Now I'm glad that I got it running, and I want to than the developer(s)
for the effort put into wxHaskell.  Keep up the good work and thank you.

Best wishes,
  Martin
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