Re: Ian leaving and the glorious future

2013-08-05 Thread Vincent Hanquez
On 08/02/2013 07:32 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: Dear ghc-dev friends, [snip] Don’t worry: I’m not bowing out! But I am very much trying to encourage you to feel that GHC is *your* compiler, not just SPJ/SM’s compiler that you can contribute to. I’m open to suggestions for how best to

Can't make ghc on master

2013-08-05 Thread Alfredo Di Napoli
Hello guys, I'm trying a fresh compile from master. These are the steps I've taken: $ git clone http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc.git/ $ cd ghc $ ./sync-all --testsuite get followed by: cp mk/build.mk.sample mk/build.mk uncommenting #BuildFlavour = quick and finally: $ perl boot $ ./configure $

Re: Ian leaving and the glorious future

2013-08-05 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Vincent Hanquez wrote: As a suggestion to increase participation, OcamlLab recently hosted a compiler hacking evening [1] and maybe it would be a good idea to host the same kind of thing for GHC ? That's a good idea Vincent. If it's not practical to meet in the same physical place (not

Re: Can't make ghc on master

2013-08-05 Thread Edsko de Vries
It might well be hsenv, which modifies your environment in a number of ways. I recommend using my approach to sandboxes, which works fine with ghc (http://www.edsko.net/2013/02/10/comprehensive-haskell-sandboxes/). -E On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Alfredo Di Napoli alfredo.dinap...@gmail.com

Re: Can't make ghc on master

2013-08-05 Thread Alfredo Di Napoli
Hi Edsko :) Hsenv was indeed the murderer. Now make passed that error (and is byte-crunching as we talk). Thanks for sharing the blog post, it's pure gold. A. On 5 August 2013 10:31, Edsko de Vries edskodevr...@gmail.com wrote: It might well be hsenv, which modifies your environment in a

GHC git server issue : warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_AU.UTF-8)

2013-08-05 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Hi all, I'm getting the above warning messahe every time I pull from the main GHC git repo. The strange thing is that this only happens on the GHC repo, on a whole bunch of others I get no such warning. After some pretty rigorous investigation I concluded that this is actually a issues with the

Re: Ian leaving and the glorious future

2013-08-05 Thread Roman Cheplyaka
There will also be a Haskell hackathon in Zurich at the end of the month. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/ZuriHac2013 Roman * Erik de Castro Lopo mle...@mega-nerd.com [2013-08-05 18:15:40+1000] Vincent Hanquez wrote: As a suggestion to increase participation, OcamlLab recently hosted a

libffi-tarballs

2013-08-05 Thread Richard Eisenberg
After the libffi-tarballs submodule was added, I did a ./sync-all pull, a ./sync-all get, and a git submodule update. Everything builds just fine, but I get this answer from git status: # On branch master # Untracked files: # (use git add file... to include in what will be committed) # #

Re: libffi-tarballs

2013-08-05 Thread Jan Stolarek
I just want to add that I have exactly the same problem. Janek - Oryginalna wiadomość - Od: Richard Eisenberg e...@cis.upenn.edu Do: ghc-devs@haskell.org Wysłane: poniedziałek, 5 sierpień 2013 10:53:57 Temat: libffi-tarballs After the libffi-tarballs submodule was added, I did a

Re: GHC git server issue : warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_AU.UTF-8)

2013-08-05 Thread Geoffrey Mainland
On 08/05/2013 10:04 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, I'm getting the above warning messahe every time I pull from the main GHC git repo. The strange thing is that this only happens on the GHC repo, on a whole bunch of others I get no such warning. After some pretty rigorous

Re: GHC git server issue : warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_AU.UTF-8)

2013-08-05 Thread Austin Seipp
I did this. Thanks for the tip. Let me know if anything else is going on. The page describing the old server setup is here: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell.org_domain - I was going to take the time to update this earlier this week but got sidetracked unfortunately. In the meantime, the

Quick Cmm question

2013-08-05 Thread Jan Stolarek
I have a question about this piece of Cmm code: cJI: R1 = _sGG::P32; call (stg_gc_enter_1)(R1) args: 4, res: 0, upd: 4; cJK: ... Does the call to stg_gc_enter_1 return to cJK: a) never; b) sometimes; c) always ? I'm looking at the implementation in rts/HeapStackCheck.cmm

Re: Literal overflow test fails

2013-08-05 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 09:47:07PM +, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: libraries\Win32\Graphics\Win32\GDI\HDC.hs:145:14: Warning: Literal 2147483648 of type Int overflows The offending code is: setTextCharacterExtra dc extra = failIf (== 0x8000) SetTextCharacterExtra $

~~ in sync-all

2013-08-05 Thread 山本和彦
Hi, A recent change[1] to sync-all introduces the ~~ operator of Perl. It seems to me that this operator is not supported by old Perl. % perl --version This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i386-linux-thread-multi % ./sync-all -r git://github.com/ghc --testsuite get

Building GHC on Mac stops

2013-08-05 Thread 山本和彦
Hi, I'm using GHC head (32bit) on Mac. Recently, building GHC head stops: % make maintainer-clean; perl boot; ./configure --prefix=/ghc-head; make -j3 ranlib: file: .libs/libgmp.a(mp_clz_tab.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: .libs/libgmp.a(obprintf.o) has no symbols ranlib: file:

Re: Building GHC on Mac stops

2013-08-05 Thread Nicolas Frisby
I never determined how to fix this. Here's the notes I developed: tl;dr For some reason, it seems gmp.h is not recognized as a dependency of mkGmpDerivedConstants.o HTH - If I run $ perl boot; ./configure; make -j4 I tend to see a build failure. Immediately running make -j4 again

Re: ~~ in sync-all

2013-08-05 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) wrote: Hi, A recent change[1] to sync-all introduces the ~~ operator of Perl. It seems to me that this operator is not supported by old Perl. % perl --version This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i386-linux-thread-multi % ./sync-all -r

Error on push to GHC git repo due to Trac?

2013-08-05 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Hi all, Got the error below. Erik bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_AU.UTF-8) Counting objects: 5, done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 412 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done. Total 3 (delta 2), reused 0

Re: Building GHC on Mac stops

2013-08-05 Thread Carter Schonwald
Yup. This has been a recurrent problem for parallel builds. There's been some prior work on tracking it down, possibly attributable to time stamp granularity or some hiccup in the dependencies. Does anyone know what the relevant ticket on track is? On Monday, August 5, 2013, Kazu Yamamoto

Re: ~~ in sync-all

2013-08-05 Thread 山本和彦
Erik, Sorry for using old Perl but I appreciate if this operator will be replaced with others. Thanks for the heads up Kazu. Should be fixed in 0daee297e3c44c00f54d2be15f13eabdddc6b62f. Thank you for your quick fix. It works! --Kazu ___