FW: Problems with the directory package on windows

2011-01-31 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Friends Can anyone help Tim with this? Tim, it'd be a good idea to say what version of Cabal you are using (cabal --version). Also you can download a pre-compiled cabal binary I believe, which would save you cabal-installing it. (Although it seems bad that you can get into a situation where

Re: Kernel panic when building HEAD on OS X 10.6.4

2011-01-31 Thread Johan Tibell
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Manuel M T Chakravarty mchakrava...@mac.com wrote: Are you building inside a Parallels VM?  If so, it is probably a Parallels bug (which also explain why compiling GHC can lead to a kernel panic). If the GHC build is not in a Parallels VM, I would suggest to

Re: Kernel panic when building HEAD on OS X 10.6.4

2011-01-31 Thread John Meacham
Any chance a cooling fan inside died and you are overheating it? Can you reproduce the failure with other heavy load programs, can you run a widget that monitors the internal temperatures and other sensors during the build? It does seem odd... John On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Johan

Re: Kernel panic when building HEAD on OS X 10.6.4

2011-01-31 Thread Johan Tibell
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:15 AM, John Meacham j...@repetae.net wrote: Any chance a cooling fan inside died and you are overheating it? Can you reproduce the failure with other heavy load programs, can you run a widget that monitors the internal temperatures and other sensors during the

Re: trac ticket spam

2011-01-31 Thread Simon Marlow
On 28/01/2011 21:08, Claus Reinke wrote: Is there any way to have a moderate first comment by new submitter policy for trac, to avoid the kind of ticket spam we have at the moment? They seem to have started commenting on existing tickets now (#4510), which could turn into a real mess really

Re: Kernel panic when building HEAD on OS X 10.6.4

2011-01-31 Thread Simon Marlow
On 28/01/2011 13:44, Johan Tibell wrote: Hi, My computer dies a horrible death (i.e. kernel panic) whenever I build GHC from HEAD (currently using the quickest build configuration). Anyone had the same problem in the past? Any workarounds? Not that this has anything to do with your problem,

Re: trac ticket spam

2011-01-31 Thread Claus Reinke
Is there any way to have a moderate first comment by new submitter policy for trac, to avoid the kind of ticket spam we have at the moment? They seem to have started commenting on existing tickets now (#4510), which could turn into a real mess really quickly, if the currently known spam accounts

Re: trac ticket spam

2011-01-31 Thread Simon Marlow
On 31/01/2011 16:45, Claus Reinke wrote: Is there any way to have a moderate first comment by new submitter policy for trac, to avoid the kind of ticket spam we have at the moment? They seem to have started commenting on existing tickets now (#4510), which could turn into a real mess really

panic parsing a stmt in ghc 7 (possible regression?)

2011-01-31 Thread Daniel Gorín
Hi I'm trying to make the hint library work also with ghc 7 and I'm having problems with some test-cases that are now raising exceptions. I've been able to reduce the problem to a small example. The program below runs ghc in interpreter-mode and attempts to parse an statement using ghc's

Bug in undecidable instances?

2011-01-31 Thread Roman Cheplyaka
The following looks like a bug in (undecidable) instances resolution. {-# LANGUAGE MultiParamTypeClasses,FlexibleInstances,UndecidableInstances, OverlappingInstances,IncoherentInstances #-} class C a b instance C a (a,b) class D a b instance (D a b, C b c)

Re: 4221 on new codegen

2011-01-31 Thread Edward Z. Yang
Current theory: c1jj: _s1ep::I32 = I32[(slot_s1ep::I32 + 4)]; // CmmAssign _s1fP::I32 = I32[(slot_s1fP::I32 + 4)]; // CmmAssign // outOfLine should follow: _s1eq::F64 = F64[_s1fP::I32 + 3]; // CmmAssign I32[(youngc1jh + 4)] = c1jh; // CmmStore foreign

ghc trac login and email verification

2011-01-31 Thread John Lask
relating to the ghc trac discussion ... for some time I have had a ghc trac login, but every time I login it asks for an email verification token (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/verify_email) but no token has ever been sent to me, nor when I change my email or request a resend is one

building ghc-7.1.20110125 under Mac OS X

2011-01-31 Thread Pavel Perikov
hi list. i have to build ghc-7.1.20110125 under mac os x, so i grabbed the stable snapshot. Everything builds fine but the resulting compiler has problems with ld. It passes gcc flags to ld like -march=-i686. Any ideas? BTW while still here. Are there any specific docs available on building

Re: building ghc-7.1.20110125 under Mac OS X

2011-01-31 Thread Daniel Peebles
The -march=-i686 issue was fixed in the past couple of days, so I'd just grab a newer version. Not sure about the 64-bit question, though. -Dan On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Pavel Perikov peri...@gmail.com wrote: hi list. i have to build ghc-7.1.20110125 under mac os x, so i grabbed the