i solved this myself - for the sake of documenting the solution, i obtained the darcs version with
darcs get --set-scripts-executable http://www.stefanwehr.de/darcs/hscurses/ and then a standard hackage install and i think the "--set-scripts-executable" in this case is significant On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 03:55:00PM -0700, brad clawsie wrote: > hoping someone here can help me with a build problem > > when going through the hackage "build" stage, i get numerous errors > like: > > HSCurses/Curses.hs:XXXX:0: invalid preprocessing directive #def > > where XXXX ranges in lines from 1597 to 1621. > > is there a special directive i need for runhaskell? any info > appreciated. > > (on freebsd6.2, ghc6.6.1, ncurses-5.6_1) > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
