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A statically typed concatenative systems programming language.
http://kittenlang.org/
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Check version bounds and test with GHC 7.8 #128

Closed evincarofautumn closed 10 years ago

evincarofautumn commented 10 years ago

Building with the Makefile appears to be broken (at least on Windows) with the latest Haskell Platform. Directly using Cabal works (at least with --force-reinstalls).

dav-s commented 10 years ago

Building with make is not working for me on OSX 10.10, GHC 7.8.3. Says cabal: Could not resolve dependencies:.

dav-s commented 10 years ago

Getting the same error on a Windows 7 machine. GHC 7.8.3, cabal-install version 1.18.0.5, and version 1.18.3.1 of Cabal library. I will try updating cabal to see if this fixes it.

dav-s commented 10 years ago

Having the same error with cabal-install version 1.20.0.3. I'm guessing this is an error with the GHC version.

@evincarofautumn : Trying to get kitten set up right now. I'm a little new to Haskell and kitten. What command would you use to install it through cabal (with --force-reinstalls).

evincarofautumn commented 10 years ago

@EpicDavi You can use make -n to see what Make will run, but it’s basically just:

cabal install --only-dependencies
cabal configure --enable-tests
cabal build

I don’t really know how to get out of this situation in a clean way. It’s just going to be an afternoon of fiddling with the version bounds in kitten.cabal, I think.

evincarofautumn commented 10 years ago

@EpicDavi You can try building from that commit with:

cabal sandbox init
make
dav-s commented 10 years ago

@evincarofautumn Yes! Thanks! It is working on my MacBook! Not sure if the make was supposed to add kitten to my path but eventually I found it in the dist. Maybe consider putting, in the build instructions, instructions for after you run make?

evincarofautumn commented 10 years ago

Cool. I suppose I can add a make install, but we’re getting into configuration system territory here…I’d really prefer to avoid autotools/CMake for as long as possible. :)

dav-s commented 10 years ago

Unfortunately, I can't get this to build on my windows machine due to make giving me the error:

make: *** No rule to make target '|', needed by 'dist/build/kitten/kitten'. Stop.

However this seems an unrelated issue (and probably just a windows issue). I am just happy to get it working on my other computer :). Thanks for the help!

evincarofautumn commented 10 years ago

That is probably due to the make on your Windows machine not supporting order-only prerequisites. I don’t know what can be done about that, other than simplifying the Makefile or upgrading your make.