RE: Strange compilation behavior

2007-12-10 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| I'm using ghc 6.6.1 under Ubuntu Gutsy on a Pentium 4 machine, and I | was working to get some code running in an acceptable time. I was | surprised to find that turning on profiling switches made the code run | over 40x faster! That is indeed strange. Things to try: * Try without -O. * Try

Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS 10.5 Leopard (Intel) - Configure fails

2007-12-10 Thread Carsten Keßler
No, I'm using the binaries from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.8.1/chakravarty/ghc-6.8.1-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2 I have already removed GMP. I have uninstalled it via Macports, or might there be another version of it somewhere in my system? Carsten Joel Reymont schrieb: I think what I

Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS 10.5 Leopard (Intel) - Configure fails

2007-12-10 Thread Joel Reymont
You may want to install GMP.framework back then. The error is saying that pwd is trying to load the framework and is not finding it. On Dec 10, 2007, at 4:22 PM, Carsten Keßler wrote: No, I'm using the binaries from

More spam problems on trac

2007-12-10 Thread Tim Chevalier
It seems the new thing for spammers to do is to add spam text wrapped in the p style=display:none tag. For example, http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WikiStart?action=diffversion=106 I don't know if anyone else has noticed this. Maybe it's time to require captchas for account creation or

Re: GHC 6.8.2, Haddock not finding std libs

2007-12-10 Thread Greg Fitzgerald
Haddock is no longer able to resolve the names from the standard libraries. There should be a new haddock release shortly, which fixes that as well as an HTML link bug. Or you can get the latest source with darcs The darcs version fixes the issue. Thanks Ian! -Greg

Re: HUnit 1.2.0.0 on 6.8.1 vs 1.1.1 on 6.6.1

2007-12-10 Thread Greg Fitzgerald
abc @=? efg Loading package HUnit-1.2.0.0 ... linking ... done. *** Exception: (unknown) On Dec 3, 2007 7:23 AM, Ian Lynagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is caused by a change in the HUnit library, from assertFailure msg = ioError (userError (hunitPrefix ++ msg)) to

Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS 10.5 Leopard (Intel) - Configure fails

2007-12-10 Thread Carsten Keßler
I have re-installed GMP (again via MacPorts) - still the same error message. Maybe MacPorts puts in the wrong place on my system? Joel Reymont schrieb: You may want to install GMP.framework back then. The error is saying that pwd is trying to load the framework and is not finding it. On

Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS 10.5 Leopard (Intel) - Configure fails

2007-12-10 Thread Philip Weaver
configure: error: cannot determine current directory I had this error message, too. I looked in the configure script, and couldn't figure out what craziness it was doing to get the current directory. I changed it to just do 'pwd', but I didn't get much farther. I gave up and built from source

Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS 10.5 Leopard (Intel) - Configure fails

2007-12-10 Thread Carsten Keßler
Basically, I just wanted to get this thing running without too much hassle... Does anyone have an idea why the GHC distribution available via MacPorts does not work at the moment? Philip Weaver schrieb: configure: error: cannot determine current directory I had this error message, too. I

Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS 10.5 Leopard (Intel) - Configure fails

2007-12-10 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Carsten Keßler: Basically, I just wanted to get this thing running without too much hassle... Does anyone have an idea why the GHC distribution available via MacPorts does not work at the moment? Install gmp from MacPorts. That will make the configure error go away. (The installed

Re: HUnit 1.2.0.0 on 6.8.1 vs 1.1.1 on 6.6.1

2007-12-10 Thread Dean Herington
Sorry, I've not been able to follow the Haskell lists very regularly recently. I'll try look into the problem soon. Dean At 10:46 AM -0800 12/10/07, Greg Fitzgerald wrote: abc @=? efg Loading package HUnit-1.2.0.0 ... linking ... done. *** Exception: (unknown) On Dec 3, 2007 7:23