The "cd" command on Linux considerately prints out the name of the
new directory, which it gets from the CDPATH. This has the unfortunate
side-effect of breaking "gmake install" for ghc6.0, which uses some shell
hackery of the form something like:
for i in `(cd share ; find .)`
where i's first val
Bugs item #748108, was opened at 2003-06-03 13:23
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Category: Build System
Group: 6.0
Status: Open
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Could the parties involved with the quoting issue please test the
following patch? It doesn't use an additional shell for starting
sub-tasks and does no additional quoting so that quoting remains
unaffected, i.e. testing with OpenGL shows that the double quotes
are indeed passed through. Sven, do y
I'm running into a strange problem when I build the X11 library using current
ghc (built from repository yesterday using gcc 3.2). The error message I get
is:
ghc-6.1: unknown package name: Main
The puzzling bit here is that I am compiling a part of a library using -c, I
don't mention a pa
On Monday 02 June 2003 7:20 pm, Alastair Reid wrote:
> In preparation for a major release of Green Card, we are making an alpha
> release for GHC folk to play with.
Ooops, I found some bugs at the last minute and recut the release - please
download again (if you downloaded before 9pm British tim
Green Card 3.00
A Foreign Function Interface Preprocessor for Haskell
In preparation for a major release of Green Card, we are making an alpha
release for GHC folk to play with.
GreenCard is a foreign function interface pre-processor for Haskell.
GreenCard 3.00
# uname -a
SunOS leo 5.8 Generic_108528-18 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R
# ./ghci
./ghci: /nfs/moussor/hdaume/lib/ghc-6.0/ghc-6.0: not found
Also the install process failed as follows:
./mkdirhier /usr/local/pub-bkb/ghc/ghc-6.0/share/ghc-6.0/html
if test -d share/html ; then cp -r share/html/*
/
Simon Marlow wrote:
> AFAICT, GHC on Windows has always done this quoting, the change was
> to make GHC on Unix do it too. [...]
Well, after some investigation of GHC's history, I came to the
conclusion that quoting for -D and -U options on *nix has been a
special case in pre-6.0 GHCs: -DFOO=BAR wa
> > But in any case, just removing the double quotes from your
> -D option
> > should be enough to fix it.
>
> Well, fixing my humble Makefile is not the point, I'm more concerned
> about this gratuitous change in the handling of quoting which breaks
> other people's Makefiles.
>
> Regardles
