How to fix Error 2 when trying to make haskell-platform?

Question

I downloaded the Haskell-platform source from here: http://www.haskell.org/platform/linux.html, installed ghc, and did /.configure. However when I do sudo make, I get the following error:

Preprocessing library HUnit-1.2.4.2...

Test/HUnit/Base.hs:1:1:
    Could not find module `Prelude'
    Perhaps you haven't installed the profiling libraries for package `base'?
    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.

Error:
Building the HUnit-1.2.4.2 package failed
make: *** [build.stamp] Error 2

Does anyone knows how to fix this?

I'm trying to install on Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS

Answer 1

Instead of trying to install from the sources, simply install the Ubuntu packages, which will be much simpler, with:

  $ sudo apt-get install haskell-platform

If you need a local version of the documentation and the profiling libraries, install the additional packages with:

  $ sudo apt-get install haskell-platform-doc haskell-platform-prof

Answer 2

Daniel Fisher's comment led me to the solution. You have to install all the profiling libraries for each of the ghc packages you have installed. Just write

sudo apt-get install ghc*-prof

That's how it worked for me