Re: Registering packages

2004-10-01 Thread gaufridus
Thank you, Simon! I did not get a wxHaskell install. wxHaskell is a zip file, not an executable or a Windows installation file. The directions at the site are clear about simply unzipping it and running the wxhaskell-register.bat file. You are absolutely right about the environment variable.

Re: BeOS port

2004-10-01 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
Waldemar Kornewald wrote: In my Linux build there is a file Arrow.hs, but in my BeOS build this file (and all others) are missing. How are these files generated and why are they not generated in BeOS? Please forget this. Those files exist on both systems, but unfortunately they are not built.

Re: BeOS port

2004-10-01 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: Why do you not offer .hc packages of different builds (FreeBSD and/or Linux)? I could use them as a very good starting point. Or could anyone please create a zip with those files generated from such a build? They aren't portable. You'll need to generate your own

RE: Is there a non-blocking version of hGetArray?

2004-10-01 Thread Simon Marlow
On 01 October 2004 08:45, Peter Simons wrote: I am a happy user of hGetBufNonBlocking, but I have come to realize that mutable arrays are nicer to work with than pointers, so I have considered using hGetArray instead. I do, however, depend on the fact that the function returns as soon as it

Re: Is there a non-blocking version of hGetArray?

2004-10-01 Thread Peter Simons
Simon Marlow writes: Not currently, but I could probably implement the equivalent (hGetArrayNonBlocking). If that were possible, I'd greatly appreciate it. I'm surprised if pointer access to memory is slower than unsafeRead. Could you post some code that we can peer at? Not right now,

Re: symbol __stg_split_marker' is already defined

2004-10-01 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
jgoerzen: Hi, I am trying to build ghc 6.2.1 for AIX. I successfully bootstrapped an unregisterised ghc-inplace from an i386 Linux box today. I am now trying to build a real ghc on AIX. I've had endless trouble, and finally decided to put this in mk/build.mk: GhcUnregisterised = YES

Re: AIX 5.1L Build of GHC 6.2.1

2004-10-01 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
jgoerzen: Hello, Whew! This was the toughest bootstrap I've done in a long time. Thanks to help from people here, I have built a working GHC 6.2.1 for AIX5.1L. (The last GHC I could find for AIX was GHC 2.09!) Congratulations :) -- Don ___

AIX 5.1L Build of GHC 6.2.1

2004-10-01 Thread John Goerzen
Hello, Whew! This was the toughest bootstrap I've done in a long time. Thanks to help from people here, I have built a working GHC 6.2.1 for AIX5.1L. (The last GHC I could find for AIX was GHC 2.09!) Find it at: gopher://quux.org/1/devel/AIX/ghc or http://quux.org/devel/AIX/ghc for the

Is there a non-blocking version of hGetArray?

2004-10-01 Thread Peter Simons
Hi, I am a happy user of hGetBufNonBlocking, but I have come to realize that mutable arrays are nicer to work with than pointers, so I have considered using hGetArray instead. I do, however, depend on the fact that the function returns as soon as it has read data -- even if less than requested

Using packages in ghci

2004-10-01 Thread Adrian Hey
Hello, Where does ghci look for .hi files from packages? (I doesn't seem to be the same place as ghc). AFAICT it expects to find them relative to the current directory, and I can only get it to work by cding to the appropriate directory *before* invoking ghci (doing this from within ghci seems to