Pugs compilation problem

simonf has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've just dowloaded release 7917 from svn, and the compilation on Fedora 3 fails like this:

Compiling Pugs.Run         ( src/Pugs/Run.hs, dist/build/src/Pugs/Run.
+o )
Skipping  Pugs.CodeGen.PIR ( src/Pugs/CodeGen/PIR.hs, dist/build/src/P
+ugs/CodeGen/PIR.o )
Skipping  Pugs.Compile.Haskell ( src/Pugs/Compile/Haskell.hs, dist/bui
+ld/src/Pugs/Compile/Haskell.o )
Skipping  Pugs.CodeGen     ( src/Pugs/CodeGen.hs, dist/build/src/Pugs/
+CodeGen.o )
Skipping  Pugs.Help        ( src/Pugs/Help.hs, dist/build/src/Pugs/Hel
+p.o )
Skipping  Pugs             ( src/Pugs.hs, dist/build/src/Pugs.o )
gram.c: In function `syckparse':
gram.c:1115: warning: implicit declaration of function `sycklex'
src/syck/syck.c: In function `syck_parse':
src/syck/syck.c:492: warning: implicit declaration of function `syckpa
+rse'
/usr/bin/ar: creating dist/build/libHSPugs-6.2.10.a
*** Found more than one 'Syck_stub.o' -- using the first one.
*** Building: /usr/bin/ghc -package stm -package network -package mtl 
+-package template-haskell -package base -package unix -package readli
+ne -idist/build -Ldist/build -idist/build/src -Ldist/build/src -o pug
+s src/Main.hs -lHSPugs-6.2.10
compilation IS NOT required
cp pugs /lhome/simonf/pugs/blib/script/pugs
/usr/bin/perl -Iinc "-MExtUtils::MY" -e "MY->fixin(shift)" /lhome/simo
+nf/pugs/blib/script/pugs
cd perl5/Perl6-Container && perl Makefile.PL && make
Pugs build should not get here at ../../inc/Module/Install.pm line 29.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 6.
make: *** [build_perl5] Error 2
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What can I do? Thanks, Simon

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Re: Pugs compilation problem by Corion (Patriarch) on Nov 11, 2005 at 20:50 UTC
My guess is that your GHC version is 6.2, and from what I remember, Pugs really wants GHC 6.4.1 or higher. Also, usually, #perl6 on [irc://freenode/perl6] has a quicker turnaround that Perlmonks for Pugs development questions. It also might be that you just received a bad/broken version of Pugs and that the next svn release fixes the problem.	[reply]
Re^2: Pugs compilation problem by simonf (Novice) on Nov 11, 2005 at 21:05 UTC
Thanks, but I have the latest ghc 6.4-7. I've tried asking this twice on IRC, and did not get much help outside of "check out the latest version".	[reply]
Re^3: Pugs compilation problem by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Nov 12, 2005 at 09:10 UTC
I don't think 6.4-7 is the latest version. I say that because fedora-haskell gives the release date of 6.4-7 as 11-May-2005 while the release date of 6.4.1 is 19-Sep-2005. AFAICT, the Fedora Haskell Project is a bit behind the latest GHC versions. Anyway, I'm running Fedora core 4 and used the "Generic Linux with glibc 2.3" ghc-6.4.1-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 tarball and it worked fine for me.	[reply]
Re^4: Pugs compilation problem by tmoertel (Chaplain) on Nov 13, 2005 at 03:21 UTC
Re^5: Pugs compilation problem by simonf (Novice) on Nov 16, 2005 at 23:03 UTC
Re: Pugs compilation problem by audreyt (Hermit) on Nov 12, 2005 at 22:37 UTC
This problem seems to be Fedora Code specific; I have attempted a fix (r7937 -- untested) that may work for you. If not, please report the diagnostics information to perl6-compiler@perl.org. Thanks! /Autrijus/	[reply]
Re: Pugs compilation problem by tphyahoo (Vicar) on Nov 12, 2005 at 12:25 UTC
Simon, if you just want a version of pugs to play with and don't care about compiling the latest version, you might want to try out pxperl, which has a pre-compiled version of pugs complete with friendly one-click windows installer, and I think a frienly nix installer as well. Haven't tried this myself so YMMV. Good luck with in perl 6 world!	[reply]