upgrade installed problem

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 28, 2009, at 11:36, Shawn Protsman wrote:

> --->  Configuring ghc
> Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure:  
> shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ 
> ghc/work/ghc-6.10.3" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --prefix=/ 
> opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ 
> ghc/work/destroot/opt/local --datadir=/opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ 
> ghc/work/destroot/opt/local/share/ghc-6.10.3 --with-gmp-includes=/ 
> opt/local/include --with-gmp-libraries=/opt/local/lib --with-ghc='/ 
> opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ 
> ghc/work/ghc-bootstrap/bin/ghc' --with-gcc=/usr/bin/gcc-4.0 "  
> returned error 2
> Command output: checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin9.8.0
> checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin9.8.0
> checking target system type... i386-apple-darwin9.8.0
> Canonicalised to: i386-apple-darwin
> checking version of ghc... 6.8.2
> checking for nhc... no
> checking for nhc98... no
> checking for hbc... no
> checking for ld... /usr/bin/ld
> ./configure: line 11082: syntax error: unexpected end of file

ghc 6.10.3 is not compatible with the recently-released autoconf 2.64.

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/20468

To install ghc 6.10.3, you will need to downgrade to autoconf 2.63.

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort