Debian stable not supported?

2008-09-22 Thread Yitzchak Gale
The Debian ghc6 package for the stable distribution is currently back at GHC 6.6 - not surprising given the way stable works at Debian. There is currently no backport of a more recent GHC to Debian stable. I need GHC 6.8 for a project to run on a production server. That means it will be running

Re: Debian stable not supported?

2008-09-22 Thread Roman Cheplyaka
* Yitzchak Gale [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-22 09:52:57+0300] Before I delete that chroot build environment - could it be useful for making GHC 6.8.3 available to others? If someone points me in the right direction, perhaps I could create a binary tarball and/or backport deb. Or at least record

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: protocol-buffers-0.2.9 for Haskell is ready

2008-09-22 Thread Yitzchak Gale
Chris Kuklewicz wrote: Who can suggest a way to cast from Float to Word32 and Double to Word64 using ghc? The actual task is that I need to write out the Float as a little endian sequence of four bytes and also be able to read it back in. The writing and reading are done in Put and Get

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 beta

2008-09-22 Thread Christian Maeder
Ian Lynagh wrote: Right now we have the source bundles: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.10.0.20080921-src.tar.bz2 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.10.0.20080921-src-extralibs.tar.bz2 I've tried to build a binary dist on x86 under Solaris and did not

Re: Debian stable not supported?

2008-09-22 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Yitzchak Gale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roman Cheplyaka wrote: I think I'll face with the similar problem in the nearest future, except I have far more old system. So I'll be very greatful if you provide the instructions and record your experience. (Looks like I may need to do this again

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 beta

2008-09-22 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 03:32:40PM +0200, Christian Maeder wrote: I've tried to build a binary dist on x86 under Solaris and did not succeed. make binary-dist failed with 1. for FILE in ; do if [ -e $FILE ]; then echo ghc-6.10.0.20080921/gmp/$FILE

Re: GHC 6.8.3's source is unusable?

2008-09-22 Thread Jason Dusek
Magicloud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see So 6.8.3 is not portable So in my company-customed-linux box, ghc is nothing to me? Any way I can use it? What kind of machine do you have? -- _jsn ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 beta

2008-09-22 Thread Wei Hu
I tried it out in Emacs, but ghci always displays some sort of garbage message. For example, when I ask for the value of 0, I get: 0^J0 Is it because ghci switched to libedit? I'm running Emacs-23 with haske-mode- cvs on Debian unstable. ___

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 beta

2008-09-22 Thread Judah Jacobson
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Wei Hu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried it out in Emacs, but ghci always displays some sort of garbage message. For example, when I ask for the value of 0, I get: 0^J0 Is it because ghci switched to libedit? I'm running Emacs-23 with haske-mode- cvs on

Re: Some initial results with DPH

2008-09-22 Thread Roman Leshchinskiy
Hi Austin, first of all, thanks a lot for taking the time to report your results! On 23/09/2008, at 11:48, Austin Seipp wrote: * The vectorise pass boosts compilation times *a lot*. I don't think this is exactly unwarrented since it seems like a pretty complicated transformation, but while

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 beta

2008-09-22 Thread Wei Hu
Judah Jacobson judah.jacobson at gmail.com writes: Do you have the libedit-dev package installed? If not, the editline backend may not have been built. You can check whether it was built by running ghci from a command prompt and checking whether the arrow keys work. -Judah I forgot to