RE: configure problems

On 26 February 2005 03:25, Frederik Eaton wrote:

> I'm trying to build a recent cvs checkout of
> glass.cse.ogi.edu:/cvs/fptools. First, I get the following error:
> 
> checking for happy... /usr/bin/happy
> checking for version of happy... 1.14
> configure: error: Happy version 1.15 or later is required to compile
> GHC. 
> 
> But the newest version of happy in Debian unstable is 1.14. Is 1.15
> really required?

Yes, Happy 1.15 really is required.

> Then when I change ./configure to only require 1.14 (since I'm just
> building documentation, I think maybe it isn't necessary) I see:
> 
> checking for .subsections_via_symbols... configure: creating
> ./config.status config.status: creating mk/config.mk
> config.status: creating mk/config.h
> config.status: error: cannot find input file: mk/config.h.in

You should use 'autoreconf' rather than 'autoconf'.

Cheers,
        Simon