Re: Haskell in Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Rui Zhu
Giuliano P Procida [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: b) ghc runs out of heap compiling its parser The file ParseIface.hs (in ghc/compiler) needs more than 64M but no more than 128M of heap to compile. With 64M of RAM and not too much else (X and ntpd) running you are looking at 1500+ garbage

Re: Haskell in Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Giuliano P Procida
Hi. On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 02:00:55AM +0200, Rui Zhu wrote: Just FYI, accidently I found at the GHC site that this file can cause trouble, there is memory leak. (see http://research.microsoft.com/users/t-simonm/ghc/download_ghc_402.html) I know, SPJ got fed up with all the reports so he

Re: Haskell in Debian

1999-05-13 Thread Giuliano P Procida
Hi. On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 06:21:19PM +0200, Rui Zhu wrote: On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 07:00:31PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: In related note, according to unofficial information from Simon Peyton Jones (the primary author of GHC), the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) will become free

Re: Haskell in Debian

1999-05-13 Thread Giuliano P Procida
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 09:10:48PM +0100, Giuliano P Procida wrote: I've hit two problems so far: a) happy is unhappy [1] b) ghc runs out of heap compiling its parser Well, I spoke to soon. I have a compile failure with no error message: ../../../ghc/driver/ghc -recomp -cpp -fglasgow-exts

Haskell in Debian

1999-05-12 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 04:06:36PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: Sorry, you are right, it is the hugs package who is non-free, didn't know there was a free version around. The free hugs98 is pre-release so I'm keeping the stable non-free version around. When hugs98 is released for good (upstream

Re: Haskell in Debian

1999-05-12 Thread Rui Zhu
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 07:00:31PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 04:06:36PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: Sorry, you are right, it is the hugs package who is non-free, didn't know there was a free version around. In related note, according to unofficial