The output is fairly clear:

make: /home/neversaint/.ghc/bin/hsc2hs-6.4.1: Command not found
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So, there seems to be no file under the name /home/neversaint/.ghc/bin/hsc2hs-6.4.1, or the file is not executable. Most likely your installation of ghc is not complete or that tool needs to be built manually. I'm no expert in compiling and installing Pugs, so I recommend you take your problems to the maintainers of Pugs.

GHC=`which ghc-6.4.1`
export GHC
cpan Pugs
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according to Corion's advice. Now the building system is looking for hsc2hs-6.4.1 - provide it. Look for hsc2hs in ~/.ghc/bin and make a symlink to it as hsc2hs-6.4.1

Or undefine the environment variable GHC and prepend your haskell directory to your path: PATH=~/.ghc/bin:$PATH so that the right haskell compiler is found (and the plain hsc2hs). Hope that's close to accurate and helpful ;-)

--shmem

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Dear shmem,


Look for hsc2hs in ~/.ghc/bin and make a symlink to it as hsc2hs-6.4.1

What's the command with symlink to do that? Sorry, I'm not experienced with symlink.

Or undefine the environment variable GHC and prepend your haskell directory to your path: PATH=~/.ghc/bin:$PATH so that the right haskell compiler is found (and the plain hsc2hs).

I already have that in my .bash_profile:

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.octave/bin:$HOME/.ghc/bin:
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And my ~/.ghc/bin directory has this:

[neversaint@voyager bin]$ pwd
/home/neversaint/.ghc/bin
[neversaint@voyager bin]$ ll -h
total 700K
lrwxrwxrwx  1 neversaint neversaint    9 Oct 18 17:28 ghc -> ghc-6.4.1
-rwxr-xr-x  1 neversaint neversaint  334 Oct 18 17:28 ghc-6.4.1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 neversaint neversaint   10 Oct 18 17:28 ghci -> ghci-6.4
+.1
-rwxr-xr-x  1 neversaint neversaint  349 Oct 18 17:28 ghci-6.4.1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 neversaint neversaint   13 Oct 18 17:28 ghc-pkg -> ghc-p
+kg-6.4.1
-rwxr-xr-x  1 neversaint neversaint  373 Oct 18 17:28 ghc-pkg-6.4.1
-rwxr-xr-x  1 neversaint neversaint 7.2K Oct 18 17:28 ghcprof
-rwxr-xr-x  1 neversaint neversaint  33K Oct 18 17:28 hp2ps
-rwxr-xr-x  1 neversaint neversaint  583 Oct 18 17:28 hsc2hs
-rwxr-xr-x  1 neversaint neversaint 313K Oct 18 17:28 runghc
-rwxr-xr-x  1 neversaint neversaint 313K Oct 18 17:28 runhaskell
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No, you don't have ~/.ghc/bin prepended to your $PATH. You have it appended instead, which is your original problem. When the systems looks for the "ghc" binary it will find the older install since it comes first in your path. Try this instead:

export PATH=$HOME/.ghc/bin:$PATH
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and then try again (without exporting the GHC variable, since it should now find the correct version through the PATH variable).

I got this same error when trying to build it manually. I fiddled around and finally gave up.

I was going to ask when the version of Perl6 will be ready that builds as easily and well as Perl5, based just on 'c'.

And I was going to answer that, based on my experience with Perl and C, it takes at least ten years of blood, sweat, and tearing your hair out to get to that point. So you can start complaining about the rough spots in, oh, make it another four years or so. :-)

It appears that they fixed this bug, because Pugs 6.2.13 released! compiles and works. I used the binary ghc, ghc-6.6-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2, installed parrot-0.4.6, and installed the lastest perl5 modules shown as dependencies. And it compiled error free, in about a half hour, and was over 10.2 megs(stripped). It seems to run, but is slower than Perl5.

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