id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,os,architecture,failure,difficulty,testcase,blockedby,blocking,related
1700,GHC 6.8-20070913 (+extralibs) won't install after building,misterbeebee@…,,"After removing the openal and alut directories (these cause build errors on Mac OS X 10.4), I was able to build ghc following the Mac+Readline instructions on the wiki.

When I ran ""sudo make install"", I see the following errors:


Installing: /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.20070913/ghc-6.8.20070913/lib/base-2.1
/usr/bin/ranlib: file: /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.20070913/ghc-6.8.20070913/lib/base-2.1/libHSbase-2.1.a(Win32Utils.o) has no symbols
/usr/bin/ranlib: file: /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.20070913/ghc-6.8.20070913/lib/base-2.1/libHSbase-2.1.a(consUtils.o) has no symbols
/usr/bin/ranlib: file: /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.20070913/ghc-6.8.20070913/lib/base-2.1/libHSbase-2.1_p.a(Win32Utils.p_o) has no symbols
/usr/bin/ranlib: file: /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.20070913/ghc-6.8.20070913/lib/base-2.1/libHSbase-2.1_p.a(consUtils.p_o) has no symbols
Registering base-2.1...
Reading package info from ""dist/installed-pkg-config"" ... done.
ghc-pkg: cannot find libHSbase-2.1.a on library path (use --force to override)
make[1]: *** [install.library.base] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 1

The libHSBase-2.1.a file is installed, at

/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.20070913/ghc-6.8.20070913/lib/base-2.1/libHSbase-2.1.a
lib is the only file in /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.20070913/ghc-6.8.20070913

which seems not not quite right (why two 'ghc-6.8.20070913' in the path?)
Should lib be one level up? (I t


make -k install completes without top-level error, but then there is no ghc executable in the install dir.",bug,closed,normal,6.8.1,Build System,6.8,fixed,,,MacOS X,x86,,Unknown,sudo make install,,,