Re: 6.12.1 Release Candidate: profiling and libHSffi_p.a

2009-11-07 Thread Ian Lynagh
. Fixed by: Mon Oct 12 11:19:52 BST 2009 Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li * Install libHSffi_p.a Thanks Ian ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.12.1 Release Candidate 1

2009-11-07 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 03:20:21PM -0500, Antoine Latter wrote: Note that what was spliced in as [] is now being spliced in as , which is incorrect. This has been filed as http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3600 and fixed. Thanks Ian

ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.12.1 Release Candidate 2

2009-11-22 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all, We are pleased to announce the second release candidate for GHC 6.12.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.12.1-rc2/ As well as the source tarball: ghc-6.12.0.20091121-src.tar.bz2 there are installers for Windows (i386) and OS X (i386), and binary distributions for x86_64/Linux

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.12.1 Release Candidate 2

2009-11-22 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 01:35:00PM -0800, Alex Dunlap wrote: I installed this and tried to build the network package. Here's what happened: SNIP $ ~/usr/bin/ghc --make Setup.hs Linking Setup ... $ ./Setup configure Warning: defaultUserHooks in Setup script is deprecated.

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.12.1 Release Candidate 2

2009-11-23 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 01:41:30PM +1000, Jens Petersen wrote: We are pleased to announce the second release candidate for GHC 6.12.1:    http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.12.1-rc2/ Thank you! For the Linux binary distributions, the linux-n tarballs are recommended over the linux

Re: A few small points about GHCi command documentation in section 2.7

2009-12-01 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:40:48PM +0200, Yitzchak Gale wrote: Please add to the documentation for :set prompt: If you enclose \i{prompt} in quotes, you can use Haskell syntax for String literals. Actually, :set prompt is nearly useless without quotes, because GHCi strips off trailing

ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-14 Thread Ian Lynagh
== The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.12.1 == The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC. There have been a number of

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-15 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 06:41:06AM +, Luca Ciciriello wrote: BTW, reading the new wiki library page I've noticed that I can use atomically, pseq, par, forkIO, etc, simply importing GHC.Conc Note that that is not a supported interface, and may break in future releases. Thanks Ian

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-15 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 06:06:26PM +, Robin Green wrote: I have been using GHC 6.12.1 from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.12.1-pre/ (which doesn't exist any more). Do I need to upgrade, or is it exactly the same? Do I need to recompile packages? I wouldn't recommend using unannounced

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-15 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 03:24:05PM +0100, Bas van Dijk wrote: There's a broken link to the Haskell Platform in: http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.1/html/users_guide/release-6-12-1.html#id2890234 Thanks; fixed with a redirect. Thanks Ian ___

Re: GHC-6.12.1: broken configure

2009-12-24 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:49:40PM +, Simon Marlow wrote: On 22/12/09 12:59, Jens Petersen wrote: 2009/12/19 Kirill A. Shutemovkir...@shutemov.name: I want to build ghc for i586-alt-linux-gnu. Why? :) Why do not use config.guess to guess correct host/target/build instead of reinvent

Re: Where did the GHC API go?

2009-12-24 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:38:08PM +, Simon Marlow wrote: On 21/12/2009 00:18, Tom Tobin wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Tom Tobinkorp...@korpios.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Jason Dusekjason.du...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe I missed an email about this...

Re: Where did the GHC API go?

2009-12-24 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:34:58PM +, Neil Mitchell wrote: Note that other links have gone broken recently: http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Prelude.html#v:filter These links are relied upon by Hoogle and Google. I suspect they have the same cause. Yes, this is

Re: Where did the GHC API go?

2009-12-24 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 09:57:58AM -0500, Andrés Sicard-Ramírez wrote: On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li wrote: I've fixed the online 6.12.1 docs, The link is down for me: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.1/html/libraries/ghc/index.html Which page

Re: Where did the GHC API go?

2009-12-24 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:11:55AM -0500, Andrés Sicard-Ramírez wrote: 2009/12/24 Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 09:57:58AM -0500, Andrés Sicard-Ramírez wrote: On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li wrote: I've fixed the online 6.12.1 docs

Re: Where did the GHC API go?

2009-12-29 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi Neil, On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 06:24:35PM +, Neil Mitchell wrote: Yes, this is now http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.0/Prelude.html#v:filter                                                   I'd suggest that Hoogle shold probably use its

Poll: Error message spans

2010-01-06 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all, Currently, when GHC reports an error it only gives a source position, not a source span. For example, with this module: main = print (f (const 'x' 'x') 'y') f xs y = xs ++ [y] you get an error starting: u.hs:1:18: Couldn't match expected type `[a]' against inferred

Re: haddock source link are wrong for haskell98 modules

2010-01-07 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 01:13:49PM +0100, Christian Maeder wrote: The link to Data.Time http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/old-time-1.0.0.3/Data-Time.html in System.Time http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/old-time-1.0.0.3/System-Time.html is also dead.

Re: is GHC developers wiki down?

2010-01-11 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:14:23PM +0200, Valery V. Vorotyntsev wrote: Clicking ``Developers (Wiki)'' link [http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc] from GHC page [http://www.haskell.org/ghc/] returns Environment not found I've fixed the link. Thanks Ian

Re: Poll: Error message spans

2010-01-13 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:10:03AM +, Simon Marlow wrote: don't think I've ever wanted to know the endpoint of the expression to which an error message refers, Here's an example where it is useful (arguably due to a poor error message): http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3746

Re: forgetting SCC

2010-02-06 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:09:42PM +0300, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: I have a suggestion: is it better for GHC to report an error on the source of kind {-# foo #-} (entered by a typo instead of {-# SCC foo #-}) ? Currently, GHC

Re: Fw: Re: Re[2]: No more ExitException? - documentation bug

2010-02-13 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 08:32:57AM +0100, Volker Wysk wrote: As you can see, it throws the ExitCode, not an ExitException. The documentation is faulty. Thanks for the report; fixed. Thanks Ian ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list

Re: Confusion about GHC and GMP

2010-02-13 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 01:17:13PM -0800, Greg Fitzgerald wrote: I wonder if someone might be able to clear a few things up for me about implementing Integer with GMP.  First, is the link below the most up-to-date information regarding GHC's situation?

Re: buildbot status

2010-02-14 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:00:14PM +0100, Karel Gardas wrote: as per GHC wiki (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/BuildBot), its buildbot should be accessible either on http://darcs.haskell.org/buildbot or on http://darcs.haskell.org:8010. The first one return 404 page not found and

Removing/deprecating -fvia-c

2010-02-14 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all, We are planning to remove the -fvia-c way of compiling code (unregisterised compilers will continue to compile via C only, but registerised compilers will only use the native code generator). We'll probably deprecate -fvia-c in the 6.14 branch, and remove it in 6.16. Simon Marlow has

Re: integer-simple by default

2010-02-20 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 11:11:15AM -0800, Greg Fitzgerald wrote: In any case, giving GMP the boot alleviates any licensing concerns, makes the GHC build a little simpler, and allows users to create standalone executables. Is there any reason we shouldn't attempt to make integer-simple the

Plans for GHC 6.12.2

2010-03-23 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all, This is a summary of our plans for GHC 6.12.2. We plan to put out a release candidate 6.12.2-rc1 shortly and, assuming there are no serious regressions found, 6.12.2 will follow soon after. The bugs that we're planning to fix for 6.12.2 are the high priority tickets in the 6.12.2

Re: Plans for GHC 6.12.2

2010-03-27 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 09:12:40PM +, Neil Mitchell wrote: Could this bug please be added: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3893 Yup, that's an easy one. Fixed. Thanks Ian ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list

Re: dblatex fails to escape backslashes

2010-03-27 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:38:55AM +, Simon Marlow wrote: On 24/03/2010 22:04, Thanos Tsouanas wrote: I'm trying to compile ghc 6.12.1, but the documentation part fails because dblatex can't escape all the backslashes that it should. (I've tried dblatex-2.10, -2.11 and -2.12.) My

Re: Plans for GHC 6.12.2

2010-03-27 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:14:34PM +, Lennart Augustsson wrote: #3904 should also be really easy to fix. Yup, done. Thanks Ian ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org

Re: trouble with Trac wiki

2010-03-28 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:48:44PM -0400, Norman Ramsey wrote: I'm trying to log into the trac wiki, and I'm logging in OK, but it says my privileges are restricted until I verify my email address. However, the promised opportunity to verify never arrives. I've checked the spam folder and

Re: Profiling bug in 6.10.4

2010-03-31 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 02:54:26PM -0400, Gregory Wright wrote: Now they seem to both be correct. The key value is at the bottom of column 8. This should be 2.386e-1 (which means that 23.86 percent of the protons in the early universe end up as helium). So it seems that this is a

ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.12.2 Release Candidate 1

2010-04-01 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all, We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 6.12.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.12.2-rc1/ As well as the source tarball: ghc-6.12.1.20100330-src.tar.bz2 there are installers for Windows (i386) and OS X (i386), and binary distributions for x86_64/Linux

Re: Plans for GHC 6.12.2

2010-04-01 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 07:31:20AM +0900, Yusaku Hashimoto wrote: How about dynamic libraries on Mac? http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3550 If the patch works fine, please include it in the next release. I wasn't able to get this done in time, sorry. Thanks Ian

Re: testing 6.12.2-pre

2010-04-09 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:48:17PM +0400, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: I have tested ghc-6.12.1.20100330 on Debian Linux, i386-family, on the DoCon test, without profilig. It looks all right. Thanks for the feedback! Thanks Ian ___

Re: Literate files in the GHC source

2010-04-17 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:38:01PM -0400, Tyson Whitehead wrote: I'm just wondering how exactly are the literate files in the GHC source suppose to be treated. I would like to read some of the documentation. I'm afraid there's no way to process it; you just have to read it in the source.

ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.2

2010-04-21 Thread Ian Lynagh
== The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.12.2 == The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of GHC. This release contains a number

Re: FFI calls: is it possible to allocate a small memory block on a stack?

2010-04-24 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 07:07:29PM +0100, Denys Rtveliashvili wrote: It appears that I am on 6.12. Strange, as I thought I have check-out the HEAD by following the instructions on the wiki: darcs get --partial http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc The wiki does not tell explicitly what

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.2

2010-04-24 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 02:39:06PM +1000, Jens Petersen wrote: Please sanity check the src tarball next time though: 6.12.2 src was released at 33M! I guess stage3 files should not be there: eg -rwxrwxr-x simonmar/GHC 37357800 2010-04-21 06:20

New trac policy

2010-04-30 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all, We have made some changes to the way in which we use trac, our bug tracker. The details are all documented here: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions#TheBugTracker but the highlights are below. We no longer have branch milestones (like 6.12-branch). Instead,

Re: blackholes and exception handling

2010-05-02 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 12:10:23AM +0200, Sebastian Fischer wrote: although, don't_launch_first is a non-terminating computation. Without black-hole detection this code would never 'launch missiles'. Is the above output intended? Yes. go_ahead :: SomeException - IO () go_ahead

Re: Dynamic libraries and GHCi

2010-05-16 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:06:21AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: - we make -dynamic the default. It's perhaps worth investigating the consequences of the first option, making -dynamic the default. Cabal would have to --enable-dynamic by default - perhaps it would get an --enable-static

Re: Memory use blowup with -O1 (versus -O0) in GHC 6.12.1/6.12.2

2010-05-16 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 01:33:00PM -0400, Robert Greayer wrote: I've encountered an interesting issue with GHC 6.12.1 and 2 in which a small program compiles quickly without using loads of memory with optimization turned off, but with optimization (-O1) turned on, GHC's memory usage becomes

ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.12.3 Release Candidate 1

2010-05-23 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all, We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 6.12.3: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.12.3-rc1/ As well as the source tarball: ghc-6.12.2.20100521-src.tar.bz2 there are installers for Windows (i386) and OS X (i386), and binary distributions for x86_64/Linux

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.12.3 Release Candidate 1

2010-06-01 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:38:56PM +0100, Barney Stratford wrote: Any ideas? Have you tried running the testsuite, to see if you can find a small failing program? I'd try the ffi tests first, e.g.: cd testsuite/tests/ghc-regress/ffi make CLEANUP=1 SKIPWAY=ghci Thanks Ian

ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.3

2010-06-12 Thread Ian Lynagh
== The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.12.3 == The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of GHC. This release contains a number

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.12.3 Release Candidate 1

2010-06-17 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 09:25:16PM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote: Ian Lynagh wrote: We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 6.12.3: There's a small build problem, also present in earlier 6.12 versions. The gzip program uses the $GZIP environment variable, which I have set

Re: unsafeCoerce# between integral and floating point types

2010-07-08 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 04:49:00PM +0200, Daniel Fischer wrote: unsafeCoerce# :: Word64# - Double# ? By the docs, that isn't supposed to work. Is it not supposed to work only because it's not value-preserving (unsafeCoerce# 1## /=## 1.0##) or are there more pitfalls? It can fail to

Re: Error building head on OS X

2010-07-20 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:45:36PM +0200, Johan Tibell wrote: Building from a clean checkout of HEAD (from today) I get: ghc-stage2: internal error: Invalid Mach-O file:Address out of bounds while relocating object file (GHC version 6.13.20100720 for i386_apple_darwin) Please report

Re: ghc 6.12.3: Data.Array.Diff and package diffarray

2010-07-20 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:55:13PM +0200, Rene de Visser wrote: According to the release notes there is a new package that now contains the module Data.Array.Diff. According to Ian's commit this package is called diffarray. This package does not seem to be available on Hackage. Hmm,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Weird behavior with arrow commands

2010-08-02 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:45:27PM +0100, Ross Paterson wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 01:10:56PM +0200, Jürgen Doser wrote: This seems to be a bug in ghc. You're right: it's getting the argument order wrong, so -dcore-lint fails on this example and all bets are off. Definitely a bug.

Re: Surprising strictness properties of pre-order fold over a Data.Map

2010-08-18 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:01:54PM +0200, Johan Tibell wrote: foldlWithKey' :: (b - k - a - b) - b - Map k a - b foldlWithKey' f z0 m = go z0 m where go z Tip = z go z (Bin _ kx x l r) = let x' = f (go z l) kx x in x' `seq` go x' r Could someone

Re: SIGPIPE in the GHC runtime

2010-08-23 Thread Ian Lynagh
Could someone summarise this thread in a ticket in the GHC trac? http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ Thanks Ian ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users

Re: Confusing warnings from GHC HEAD

2010-09-04 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 09:11:13PM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones simo...@microsoft.comwrote: I can’t reproduce this. With the enclosed module and HEAD, I get the warning; but when I add –fspec-constr-count=5, the warning goes away and

Re: Directory-backed Handle?

2010-09-15 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:38:17AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: Alternatively we could give it a meaning as you suggest - newline-separated file names seems like a reasonable interpretation. '\0'-separated sounds better. Thanks Ian ___

Re: Does GhcDebugged work?

2010-09-24 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 05:12:23PM -0400, Edward Z. Yang wrote: I wasted an afternoon compiling GHC with GhcDebugged = YES in my mk/build.mk, only to have ghc-stage2 tell me it wasn't compiled with -debug. Looking at mk/config.mk.in, it seems that GhcDebugged is unconditionally set to NO.

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.1 Release Candidate 1

2010-09-28 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:46:19AM +1000, Jens Petersen wrote: We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.0.1 Thank you! :) Are you going to bootstrap the testsuite? I would like to run it but having trouble working out how to do that. Ah, sorry, I tarred up the

Re: Version 7.0.1-rc1 bootstrapping

2010-09-28 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 02:52:30PM -0700, David Fox wrote: In order to bootstrap with the compiler we are using, I had to rename the function at line 13 of compiler/utils/Exception.hs from mask_ to mask. Hmm, curious. mask_ has mask's type, which seems wrong, but building the stable branch with

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.1 Release Candidate 1

2010-09-28 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:55:51AM -0700, Evan Laforge wrote: There are some issues with the .pkg installer under OS X: Installers shouldn't be deleting the old version! This has been a long-standing bug of the OS X installer. We'd love a fix from an OS X installer expert! The framework-pkg

Re: Parallel build broken

2010-09-30 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 08:13:01PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Hacking says that parallel builds are supported, but this doesn't seem to be true anymore. It's still true. If you're having problems, please file a ticket. Thanks Ian

Re: porting using unregisterised build: x86-amd64 solaris

2010-10-05 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 08:25:53PM +0200, Karel Gardas wrote: step which fails with: gmake -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=0 just-makefiles configure --with-ghc=/export/home/karel/vcs/ghc-target/ --with-ghc-pkg=/export/home/karel/vcs/ghc-target/ --with-gcc=/usr/bin/gcc

Re: porting using unregisterised build: x86-amd64 solaris

2010-10-05 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 04:25:46PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 08:25:53PM +0200, Karel Gardas wrote: step which fails with: gmake -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=0 just-makefiles configure --with-ghc=/export/home/karel/vcs/ghc-target/ --with-ghc-pkg

Re: porting using unregisterised build: x86-amd64 solaris

2010-10-05 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 07:21:43PM +0200, Karel Gardas wrote: On 10/05/10 17:25, Ian Lynagh wrote: Does the file exist? If so, make -dr all_ghc_stage2 should show why make thinks it's out of date, which should point to the problem. The file exists and `gmake -dr all_ghc_stage2

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.1 Release Candidate 1

2010-10-17 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 04:56:18PM -0700, Evan Laforge wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:55:51AM -0700, Evan Laforge wrote: There are some issues with the .pkg installer under OS X: Installers shouldn't be deleting the old

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.1 Release Candidate 1

2010-10-17 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 06:03:21PM +1300, Alexander McPhail wrote: Just to let you know, libgmp3-dev is already installed (Debian package). Could there be a problem with (debian) package detection? It works for me, with libgmp3-dev 2:4.2.2+dfsg-3 on Debian. Thanks Ian

Re: Has something about -prof -auto-all changed in GHC 7?

2010-10-19 Thread Ian Lynagh
18 16:39:57 BST 2010 Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li * Fix -auto-all: Add SCCs to IDs which have a monotype too Thanks Ian ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.1 Release Candidate 1

2010-10-23 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 02:37:04PM -0700, Evan Laforge wrote: I don't think there's anything magic about the name. The tricky thing about uninstallation is detecting when you uninstalled the currently active version (as defined by the plain 'ghc' symlinks and thy Current symlink), and

Re: clearing GHCi (and, by extension, hint) loaded module dependencies

2010-10-23 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 03:26:21PM -0400, Alex Suraci wrote: I've got Atomo up and running on GHC 7 now. Very nice performance boosts! Plus memory appears to be freed, though I can't test loading as it panics: atomo $ atomo load: src/empty.hs atomo: atomo: panic! (the

Re: GHC static binaries with glibc-2.12?

2010-10-23 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:23:59PM -0700, Alexander Dunlap wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/10/2010 05:22, Alexander Dunlap wrote: On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Simon Marlowmarlo...@gmail.com  wrote: On 08/10/2010 03:23, Alexander

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.1 Release Candidate 1

2010-10-23 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 04:21:29PM -0700, Evan Laforge wrote: I've pushed patches to do this, and also added the full GHC version and arch (i386/x86_64) to the framework version number. One annoyance is that if you have 7.1.20101023-i386 installed, then 7.1.20101022-i386 won't actually

Re: making 7.01-pre

2010-11-02 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 03:43:42PM +0400, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: Then, making it from source by itself reports /usr/bin/gcc -fno-stack-protector -DTABLES_NEXT_TO_CODE -Iincludes -Irts -DGEN_HASKELL -c includes/mkDerivedConstants.c -o

Re: MonoLocalBinds and darcs

2010-11-03 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 10:10:53AM +, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: Well, I'm aware that it's a compromise. I don't know how to do a bang-up principled job of typechecking local polymorphism, so GHC does a best-effort job. In fact best effort is pretty good, and it's not hard to

ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.0.1

2010-11-15 Thread Ian Lynagh
= The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.0.1 = The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC. Since the 6.12 branch we are delighted

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.0.1

2010-11-21 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:03:44PM +0100, Christian Maeder wrote: ./configure failed with: checking for path to top of build tree... utils/ghc-pwd/ghc-pwd: error while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory configure: error: cannot

Re: packaging options for Mac OS X

2010-11-28 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 12:56:00PM -0800, Mark Lentczner wrote: Outstanding question is what should this framework be called? I would like to continue to call it GHC.framework, but change the version to something like 7.0.1+HP-i386, I think it ought to be called Haskell-Platform.framework.

Re: packaging options for Mac OS X

2010-11-29 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 01:29:10PM +1100, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: Ian Lynagh: On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 12:56:00PM -0800, Mark Lentczner wrote: Outstanding question is what should this framework be called? I would like to continue to call it GHC.framework, but change the version

Re: New codegen failing test-cases

2010-12-09 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:31:19PM -0500, Edward Z. Yang wrote: Ian, I'd love a little guidance with this patch: Thu Oct 21 13:08:53 BST 2010 Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li * Use takeUniqFromSupply in emitProcWithConvention We were using the supply's unique, and then passing the same supply

ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.2 Release Candidate 1

2010-12-16 Thread Ian Lynagh
We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.0.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.0.2-rc1/ This includes the source tarball, installers for OS X and Windows, and bindists for amd64/Linux, i386/Linux, amd64/FreeBSD and i386/FreeBSD. Please test as much as possible;

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.2 Release Candidate 1

2010-12-17 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 02:55:39PM -0600, Antoine Latter wrote: Are there tentative release notes, so I know what to look for? Yes, release notes are included in the user guide. Thanks Ian ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list

Re: Some patches for GHC

2010-12-31 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 02:02:18PM +0100, Bas van Dijk wrote: I was just wondering if somebody could review (and hopefully apply) some of or all the patches in: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/ticket/4834/ghc_new_monad_hierarchy.dpatch Note that these patches are

Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-10 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:47:43PM -0500, Norman Ramsey wrote: My workflow has never involved much cherry-picking, and I tried revising history ('rebasing') once and didn't like it. But I use git's cheap branching and merging workflow *very* heavily. Do you mean you've used this to do

Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-10 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 01:27:17PM +, Simon Marlow wrote: I don't think the dependencies get very deep in most cases, and my impression is that we often don't want to pull the dependencies anyway, so darcs forces us to merge the patch manually (Ian would be able to say for sure how

Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-10 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 01:27:17PM +, Simon Marlow wrote: It would be a prerequisite to switching that a GHC developer only has to use one VCS. So we either migrate dependencies to git, or mirror them in GHC-specific git branches. I think it's hard to know how well it's going to work

Re: backward compatibility

2011-01-20 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 08:14:29AM +, Max Bolingbroke wrote: On 20 January 2011 02:47, John Meacham j...@repetae.net wrote: Allowing this was a specific feature that was included in ghc on purpose (as well as the relaxed if/then layout rule in do statements) So this is definitely a

Re: backward compatibility

2011-01-20 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 05:09:58PM -, Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote: From the point of view of darcs, which is usually trying to support 2 or 3 GHC versions at a time, one cycle of deprecation makes life a lot simpler. We do look at warnings and try to fix them, but it's nicer not to have

Re: backward compatibility

2011-01-20 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 09:22:37PM +0100, Axel Simon wrote: In the case of the layout bug, I think it might be worth considering going the other way: adjusting the standard with what ghc has always done. Anyone can propose language changes - the process is described here:

Re: backward compatibility

2011-01-21 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:18:57AM +, Simon Marlow wrote: On 20/01/2011 20:22, Axel Simon wrote: So, again, for this particular extension I suggest that the layout rule in the standard(s) should be revised -- if I'm mistaken, this will not break other programs. You've convinced me. The

Re: OSX i386/x86 and x86_64 - time to switch supported platforms?

2011-02-04 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 07:38:41PM +0800, Max Cantor wrote: The last 32-bit, Intel Mac was the Mac Mini, discontinued in August 2007. The bulk of them were discontinued in 2006, along with PowerPC Macs. Does it make sense to relegate OSX x86_64 to community status while the 32-bit version

ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.2 Release Candidate 2

2011-02-20 Thread Ian Lynagh
We are pleased to announce the second release candidate for GHC 7.0.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.0.2-rc2/ This includes the source tarball, the Windows installer, and bindists for 32bit and 64bit Intel OS X, amd64/Linux, i386/Linux, amd64/FreeBSD and i386/FreeBSD. Please test as

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.2 Release Candidate 2

2011-02-21 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 09:46:18AM +0100, Bas van Dijk wrote: I may have found a bug (not sure if it's in ghc or cabal): $ cabal install unix-compat Resolving dependencies... Configuring unix-compat-0.2.1.1... cabal: Missing dependency on a foreign library: * Missing header file:

Re: cabal install network was: Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.2 Release Candidate 2

2011-02-21 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 05:44:54PM +0100, Christian Maeder wrote: % cabal --version cabal-install version 0.9.5 using version 1.10.1.0 of the Cabal library With this the cabal-install command, you can install the network package. No, I've tried with: cabal-install version

Re: cabal install network was: Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.2 Release Candidate 2

2011-02-22 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 09:59:20AM +0100, Christian Maeder wrote: Where does cabal get its flags from? (hardcoded?) From the C compiler flags, Gcc Linker flags and Ld Linker flags entries in ghc --info's output. Thanks Ian ___

Re: Question about Haskell AST

2011-02-22 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi Jane, On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:46:16PM -0800, Jane Ren wrote: Did you mean I have to include the dflags like below to get the parsetree of a base library file like libraries/base/GHC/List.lhs I am stilling getting the same error AstWalker: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.2 Release Candidate 1

2011-02-23 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 08:22:18AM -0800, paolino wrote: Hi, I've a problem compiling last network package 2.3.0.2 [ 4 of 10] Compiling Network.Socket ( dist/build/Network/Socket.hs, dist/build/Network/Socket.o ) Network/Socket.hsc:1701:11: Ambiguous occurrence `closeFdWith' It

Re: read-only-relocs on 64-bit OS X (was Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.2 Release Candidate 1)

2011-02-26 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 01:55:46PM -0600, David Peixotto wrote: I'm getting a warning from the linker when building programs using the 64-bit version of the release candidate on Mac OS X 10.6. Linking Hello ... ld: warning: -read_only_relocs cannot be used with x86_64 Thanks for the

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.2 Release Candidate 2

2011-02-28 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 04:08:55PM +0100, Christian Maeder wrote: Am 28.02.2011 13:33, schrieb Christian Maeder: Am 20.02.2011 22:16, schrieb Ian Lynagh: We are pleased to announce the second release candidate for GHC 7.0.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.0.2-rc2/ I'm

ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.0.2

2011-03-03 Thread Ian Lynagh
= The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.0.2 = The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of GHC. This release contains a number of

Re: semaphore functions in the wrong place during cross-build

2011-03-05 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:46:13AM -0800, Tyler Pirtle wrote: I'm not sure where the right place is to configure this. While linking hsunix + some others, the compiler assumes that -lrt is the appropriate library to find semaphore-related functions, but for the particular toolchain i'm

Re: Documentation build failure

2011-03-05 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 11:27:40AM +0100, Daniel Fischer wrote: $ dblatex --version /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbtexmf/dblatex/grubber/util.py:8: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead import md5 dblatex version 0.2.7 I don't know if this is the

Re: Documentation build failure

2011-03-05 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 01:20:03PM +0100, Malte Sommerkorn wrote: Building the ps/pdf documentation works only with a specific, outdated version of dblatex I don't think that's true, but IIRC miktex includes a completely different program, also called dblatex, which doesn't do what we want.

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