Re: ghc-pkg unregister disobedience

2011-08-30 Thread Albert Y. C. Lai
On 11-08-29 02:39 PM, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote: ghc-pkg unregister --user P drops the global package if P is not in user. [etc] Now as ticket http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5442 ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list

Re: ghc-pkg regression (or deliberate change)?

2011-03-01 Thread Simon Marlow
On 22/02/2011 22:38, Tyler Pirtle wrote: Hi there, I'm using a system with an older version of GHC (6.8.3), and invoking ghc-pkg against a non-existing file in -f: $ haskell/ghc/v683/k8/lib/ghc-6.8.3/ghc-pkg.bin --global-conf haskell/ghc/v683/k8/lib/ghc-6.8.3/package.conf -f

Re: ghc-pkg check problem in 6.10.2

2009-04-20 Thread Simon Marlow
David Waern wrote: 2009/4/2 Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com: I just noticed that the new 'ghc-pkg check' feature exposes a silly mistake in the definition of the rts package that we ship with GHC 6.10.2: $ ghc-pkg check There are problems in package rts-1.0: include-dirs: PAPI_INCLUDE_DIR

Re: ghc-pkg check problem in 6.10.2

2009-04-02 Thread David Waern
2009/4/2 Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com: I just noticed that the new 'ghc-pkg check' feature exposes a silly mistake in the definition of the rts package that we ship with GHC 6.10.2: $ ghc-pkg check There are problems in package rts-1.0:  include-dirs: PAPI_INCLUDE_DIR doesn't exist or

Re: ghc-pkg: can't unregister - not found - describe works?

2007-07-22 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 16:25 +0200, Marc Weber wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /pr/source/wxh/wxhaskell-0.9.4 $ ghc-pkg-wrapper-6.6.1 unregister wx ghc-pkg: cannot find package wx [EMAIL PROTECTED] /pr/source/wxh/wxhaskell-0.9.4 $ ghc-pkg-wrapper-6.6.1 describe wx name: wx version: 0.10.1

RE: ghc-pkg, recompilation check

2005-06-07 Thread Simon Marlow
On 06 June 2005 15:42, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: And in 6.4, make dm reports ... Reading package info from stdin... done. ghc-pkg: invalid package identifier: The syntax of package descriptions has changed. Documentation for the new format is here:

RE: ghc-pkg too happy to create ~/.ghc

2005-03-16 Thread Simon Marlow
Thanks, I've committed a version of your patch. Cheers, Simon On 16 March 2005 04:07, Ian Lynagh wrote: The Debian autobuilders don't let you write to ~ (which seems reasonable, as they are only compiling the software, not running it), so my builds are failing with --

RE: ghc-pkg can't build GHCi libs in Windows Command Prompt

2004-05-05 Thread Simon Marlow
On 04 May 2004 19:54, Krasimir Angelov wrote: In the current implementation of the ghc-pkg util it is impossible to build GHCi libs if you don't have ld in the current search path. Under Windows the compiler usually comes with its own linker (ghc-lib/ld.exe). Why doesn't ghc-pkg use the

Re: ghc-pkg 6.2 incorrectly parses commas within quotes

2004-02-16 Thread Sven Panne
Ashley Yakeley wrote: Any word on whether this has been/will be fixed? [...] Well, it's fixed in CVS for quite a while, but it's up to Simon^2 when a new GHC release comes out. Personally I'd favour tossing this feature altogether, [...] Me too... :-P * * * Cheers, S.

Re: ghc-pkg info

2002-04-22 Thread Ashley Yakeley
At 2002-04-21 12:52, Sven Panne wrote: It would be nice if ghc-pkg had options to display the value of $libdir or at least the given conf file. [...] I had *major* pains with this for the upcoming HOpenGL release, too. :-P Right. I need to find the location of Rts.h. Ideally, I would do

Re: ghc-pkg info

2002-04-21 Thread Sven Panne
Simon Marlow wrote: It would be nice if ghc-pkg had options to display the value of $libdir or at least the given conf file. [...] I had *major* pains with this for the upcoming HOpenGL release, too. :-P 'ghc -v' will tell you the location of package.conf, which for a normal GHC install

Re: ghc-pkg info

2002-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Thaller
[...] readlink -f `which ghc` and get it from there, but that fails with the latest MacOS X version because it uses small shell scripts in unusual places instead of symlinks. Those shell scripts were installed by a standard make install, so I expect them to be there for any platform - it has

Re: ghc-pkg info

2002-04-18 Thread Ashley Yakeley
At 2002-04-18 02:37, Wolfgang Thaller wrote: Those shell scripts were installed by a standard make install, so I expect them to be there for any platform - it has nothing to do with MacOS X. Must be a new thing in the source. Your previous port of 5.03 had symlinks there. -- Ashley

RE: ghc-pkg

2001-10-15 Thread Josef Svenningsson
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Simon Marlow wrote: With large projects, ghc runs out of heapspace because of too much caching. I think it's more likely that GHC has some space leaks which cause it to hang on to too much memory between compilations. In theory, it only caches the contents of

RE: ghc-pkg

2001-10-09 Thread Josef Svenningsson
Hi! I would like to add a request to Thomas list of lacking features of ghc --make: When caching information between the compilation of different modules, use weak pointers. With large projects, ghc runs out of heapspace because of too much caching. It's always fine to restart the build

RE: ghc-pkg

2001-10-02 Thread Simon Marlow
I notice that the method for detecting the configuration of ghc (for building 'hmake') no longer works with 5.02. This must be the most unstable part of ghc - I've had to change it at 4.06, 4.08, 5.00, and now 5.02 as well! ghc-pkg-5.00 --show-package std --field import_dirs

Re: ghc-pkg

2001-10-02 Thread Thomas Hallgren
Simon Marlow wrote: Perhaps it would be easier to have hmake just invoke 'ghc --make' under the hood? I don't think ghc --make is mature enough to replace other make tools yet. For example, when trying to compile Fudgets with ghc-5.02 --make -O2, with GHCRTS=-M100M, I got GHC's heap