Re: Problem building on host machine when trying to cross-compile an unregistered build

2008-01-18 Thread Jim Burton
Truly sorry to bump this, but does anyone have any pointers about building the host part of a cross-compilation? I've tried to follow the wiki instructions and failed. On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 12:41 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, host machine is Linux i386 and the target is NetBSD alpha, ghc >

Re: Integrating editline with ghc

2008-01-18 Thread Judah Jacobson
On Jan 17, 2008 1:19 AM, Christian Maeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Judah Jacobson wrote: > > - System.Console.Editline.Readline contains the readline APIs provided > > by the editline library (mostly a cut/paste of > > System.Console.Readline). > > I would like to see a restructuring of the old

Re: ghc binary on virtualized solaris

2008-01-18 Thread Christian Maeder
the entry in Makefile-vars is irrelevant for Solaris. it should be: RANLIB = : I did not know that the paths like for ranlib are so deeply burned into each library package (by cabal). Indeed I have: -bash-3.1$ type -all ranlib ranlib is /usr/local/bin/ranlib ranlib is /usr/ccs/bin/ranlib I

returning to instance overlap

2008-01-18 Thread Serge D. Mechveliani
Dear GHC developers, can you exaplain, please, how to use overlapping instances? For example, the following program uses overlapping instances for DShow [a] and DShow String, but ghc-6.8.2 reports an error: - class DShow a whe

Re: Integrating editline with ghc

2008-01-18 Thread Christian Maeder
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: > Christian Maeder: >> 1. a _new_ readline package that only contains the interface that can be >> implemented using libeditline _or_ libreadline. If this package is call >> "readline" (with a new version number) most libraries i.e. like Shellac >> would not need modif

RE: gmp

2008-01-18 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| > gmp is nice, it is really convenient. But someone needs | > to completely clarify the license issues in that case, and | > make it completely clear to all users. | | I completely agree that we need to document the situation clearly. Although I hate discussing licensing (which is why GHC has a