#1232: unix-compatible interpreter needed for ghc (desperately)
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Reporter: Frederik | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Compiler | Version: 6.6
Severity: normal | Keywords:
Difficulty: Unknown | Testcase:
Architecture: Unknown | Os: Unknown
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The GHC installation should include an executable (either a binary or e.g.
/bin/sh script) which can be used at the top of files with the unix "#!"
mechanism to create an executable script. Malcolm Wallace points out that
runhs from the hmake distribution can be used for this, but it should
really be part of GHC.
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2007-
March/012172.html
Now that Simon Marlow (?) has implemented the '-x' option to allow files
to use arbitrary extensions, this should be as easy as a 2 or 3 line shell
script, although I don't know if runghc recognises -x so maybe there is a
bit more work to be done.
I would suggest that the name of the executable be 'runhs-ghc' and that a
link should be created called 'runhs' (similar to 'runhaskell'; also
included in /etc/alternatives/ in Debian) which can be shared with other
compilers/interpreters.
For instance, if runghc recognised -x then the following would work as the
contents of runhs-ghc:
#!/bin/sh
/path/to/runghc -x hs "$@"
(The /path/to/runghc should point to the runghc which is installed at the
same time as the above script is installed, so it will not be as simple as
copying the script into place - some variable substitution will be needed
- I think this is standard practice, see the 'firefox' script on a Linux
distro for an example of such binding)
Thanks,
Frederik
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1232>
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