Haskell Platform 2011.4.0.0 from source

The Haskell Platform source file
haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0.tar.gz
is downloaded to <username>/Software and extracted to

<username>/Software/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0

 Install the Haskell Platform to

/opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0

The Haskell compiler is installed first from the directory

~/Software/ghc-7.0.4

to

/opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0

As all needed libraries are in place already, everything goes easy:  

 

[prompt]:~/Software/ghc-7.0.4$ sudo ./configure --prefix=/opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0

checking for path to top of build tree... /home/[user]/Software/ghc-7.0.4

Build platform inferred as: i386-unknown-linux

Host platform inferred as: i386-unknown-linux

Target platform inferred as: i386-unknown-linux

checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl

... ... ...

configure: creating ./config.status

config.status: creating extra-gcc-opts

config.status: creating mk/config.mk

config.status: creating mk/install.mk

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Configuration done, ready to 'make install'

(see README and INSTALL files for more info.)

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[prompt]:~/Software/ghc-7.0.4$ sudo make install

make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk install BINDIST=YES NO_INCLUDE_DEPS=YES

/usr/bin/install -c -m 755 -d "/opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0/share/man"

/usr/bin/install -c -m 755 -d "/opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0/share/man/man1"

/usr/bin/install -c -m 644  docs/man/ghc.1 "/opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0/share/man/man1"

... ... ...

/usr/bin/install -c -m 644  libraries/prologue.txt "/opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/"

/usr/bin/install -c -m 755  libraries/gen_contents_index "/opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/"

for i in docs/users_guide/users_guide libraries/Cabal/doc/Cabal utils/haddock/doc/haddock; do \

        /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 -d "/opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0/share/doc/ghc/html/`basename $i`"; \

        /usr/bin/install -c -m 644  $i/* "/opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0/share/doc/ghc/html/`basename $i`"; \

    done

[prompt]:~/Software/ghc-7.0.4$ cd ..

[prompt]:~/Software$ cd haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0

[prompt]:~/Software/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0$ sudo ./configure --prefix=/opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0 --with-ghc=/opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0/bin/ghc --with-ghc-pkg=/opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0/bin/ghc-pkg --with-hsc2hs=/opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0/bin/hsc2hs

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*

*     Haskell Platform Source Installer

*

*     For the Haskell Platform 2011.4.0.0 and GHC 7.0.4

*

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checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking version of ghc... 7.0.4

checking version of ghc-pkg matches... yes

checking ghc actually works... [1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( conftest.hs, conftest.o )

yes

checking the ghc core packages are all installed... yes

... ... ...

configure: creating ./config.status

config.status: creating scripts/config

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* Configuration completed successfully.          

*                                                

*   Install prefix: /opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0

*     Haskell packages will be registered into   

*     the global ghc package database            

*                                                

*   If you wish to change these settings then    

*   use --prefix= and/or --enable-user-install   

*                                                

* Now do "make" followed by "sudo make install"  

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[prompt]:~/Software/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0$ sudo make install

scripts/build.sh

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Scanning system for any installed Haskell Platform components...

Found:None.

New packages to install: None! All done.

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Building transformers-0.2.2.0

"/opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0/bin/ghc" "--make" "Setup" "-o" "Setup" "-package" "Cabal-1.10.2.0"

[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( Setup.hs, Setup.o )

Linking Setup ...

"./Setup" "configure" "--package-db=../../packages/package.conf.inplace" "--prefix=/opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0" "--with-compiler=/opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0/bin/ghc" "--with-hc-pkg=/opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0/bin/ghc-pkg" "--with-hsc2hs=/

opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0/bin/hsc2hs" "--enable-library-profiling" "--ghc-pkg-option=--package-conf=../../packages/package.conf.inplace"

... ... ...

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* Installation completed successfully.           

*

* Programs installed into:                       

*   /opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0/bin

*

* Now do "cabal update" to initialize the package list                         

*

* Additional packages may be found at http://hackage.haskell.org

* or via "cabal list <pattern>"

*

* Use "cabal install <foo>" to install additional packages

*

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[prompt]:~/Software/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0$ cabal update

Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org

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CHANGES

In .bashrc:

# Path to Haskell ghc

PATH=$PATH:/opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0/bin

In .emacs.el

(setq haskell-program-name "/opt/haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0/bin/ghci")