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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 9 years ago

evincarofautumn commented 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 years ago

@EpicDavi You can try building from that commit with:

cabal sandbox init
make
dav-s commented 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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.