file name letters

2007-09-05 Thread Serge D. Mechveliani
Dear GHC users and developers, there has occured a curious case with file name letters. One user has built the docon library application (in Haskell) on MacOS X 10.4 + ghc-6.6.1. And making the test program has failed due to the presence of the file linalg.hs in the directory of

Re: file name letters

2007-09-05 Thread Arthur van Leeuwen
On 5-sep-2007, at 9:01, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: Dear GHC users and developers, there has occured a curious case with file name letters. One user has built the docon library application (in Haskell) on MacOS X 10.4 + ghc-6.6.1. And making the test program has failed due to the

Re: file name letters

2007-09-05 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi Ouch, the well-known case-preserving but case-ignoring default behaviour of MacOS X's file system bites someone again. In short: Mac OS X's filesystem ignores case when opening a file, but preserves case when creating. FWIW, Windows has exactly the same behaviour. Technically you can

Re: 6.6.1 + DoCon on Mac OS

2007-09-05 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi Serge, On Sep 4, 2007, at 4:27 AM, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: People, please, who can advise about ghc-6.6.1 + DoCon on Mac OS ? in DoCon-2.09 and tell whether this installation is likely to work under Mac OS ? How DoCon-2.09 + ghc-6.6.1 can be ported to Mac OS ? I ported

Re: configure option --oldincludedir

2007-09-05 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi Wolfgang, On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 11:45:37PM +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: what is the option --oldincludedir of the configure script in the current 6.7 nightly snapshot for? ./configure --help says that its default is /usr/include. Is this directory used to install files into or is