TinyCoreLinux extension

[josemaria.alkala]

I am trying to create a GHC package for TinyCoreLinux?  http://www.tinycorelinux.com (this is a 10Mbytes linux distribution)

I have downloaded the general binary:  http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.0.3/ghc-7.0.3-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2

When I execute: ./configure, I get: checking for path to top of build tree... ghc-pwd: mkTextEncoding: invalid argument (Invalid argument) configure: error: cannot determine current directory

As a disclaimer, I am not a developer!

[simonmar]

what is your LANG environment variable set to? Does TinyCoreLinux? support locales at all?

[josemaria.alkala]

This is the environment:

tc@box:~$ export
export BACKUP='1'
export COLORFGBG='15;0'
export COLORTERM='rxvt'
export DESKTOP='flwm_topside'
export DISPLAY=':0.0'
export ENV='/home/tc/.ashrc'
export FLWM_TITLEBAR_COLOR='B0:C4:DE'
export G_FILENAME_ENCODING='iso8859-1'
export HOME='/home/tc'
export ICONS='wbar'
export LANG='C'
export LOGNAME='tc'
export OLDPWD='/usr/local/bin'
export PAGER='less -EM'
export PATH='/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin'
export PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
export PWD='/home/tc'
export SHELL='/bin/sh'
export TERM='rxvt'
export TZ='UTC'
export USER='tc'
export WINDOWID='10485762'
export WM_PID='4479'
export XAUTHORITY='/home/tc/.Xauthority'
tc@box:~$

[simonmar]

ghc-pwd is a GHC-compiled binary used by the installer configure script. It's trying to call iconv to get the locale encoding. I presume TinyCoreLinux? is missing some iconv functionality or something, but I'm not sure exactly what, or how we should work around it. Someone will have to install TinyCoreLinux? and investigate further.