GHC from CVS

2001-04-10 Thread Ralf Hinze
Dear all, after the failed attempts to install ghc 5.00 from the packages you provide, I downloaded ghc from the cvs repository. It compiles just fine except that ghci is not built: ghci ghc-5.00: not built for interactive use Do I have to specify this explicitly? Cheers, Ralf

Re: GHC from CVS

2001-04-10 Thread Marcus Shawcroft
Ralf Hinze wrote: It compiles just fine except that ghci is not built: ghci ghc-5.00: not built for interactive use Do I have to specify this explicitly? Cheers, Ralf Hi ghci is not built unless you are compiling with ghc 4.11 or better. Try rebuilding ghc using the 5.00 version that

RE: GHC from CVS

2001-04-10 Thread Julian Seward (Intl Vendor)
| after the failed attempts to install ghc 5.00 from | the packages you provide, I downloaded ghc from the | cvs repository. It compiles just fine except that ghci | is not built: | | ghci | ghc-5.00: not built for interactive use | | Do I have to specify this explicitly? No. Interactive

Mysterious file reference in ghc distribution

2001-04-10 Thread George Russell
I was just trying to compile the new ghc 5.00 on Sparc/Solaris and got this: ==fptools== gmake boot --no-print-directory -r; in /home/ger/ghc-5.00/ghc/lib/std/cbits ../../../../glafp-utils/mkdependC/mkdependC -f .depend

Re: GHC from CVS

2001-04-10 Thread Jeffrey R. Lewis
Marcus Shawcroft wrote: Ralf Hinze wrote: It compiles just fine except that ghci is not built: ghci ghc-5.00: not built for interactive use Do I have to specify this explicitly? Cheers, Ralf Hi ghci is not built unless you are compiling with ghc 4.11 or better. Try

ghc-5.00 packaging bug and others

2001-04-10 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
The binary package makes a link ghci-pkg - ghci-pkg-5.00 instead of ghc-pkg - ghc-pkg-5.00. The postscript documentation renders - and -- in the same way (i.e. --make looks like -make etc.). There is $i$th in one place in the documentation (sgml is not tex). -- __(" Marcin Kowalczyk *

RE: GHC from CVS

2001-04-10 Thread Julian Seward (Intl Vendor)
| And to get a usable system, I've found that you have to | compile it with | itself again - i.e. compile it three times. Unless I | bootstrap to stage | 3, recompilation is hopelessly confused: compile a program | from scratch - | no problem, but make a simple modification, then recompile,