Re: 7.8.1, template haskell, and dynamic libraries

2014-02-18 Thread Carter Schonwald
hey Albert, could you open a ticket on ghc Trac about the QuasiQuot thing? On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote: > The new dynamism is pretty nice! I even used GHC 7.6.3 to build > cabal-install 1.18, then played with PATH so that when I said "cabal > install mtl" it saw GHC

Re: 7.8.1, template haskell, and dynamic libraries

2014-02-18 Thread Albert Y. C. Lai
The new dynamism is pretty nice! I even used GHC 7.6.3 to build cabal-install 1.18, then played with PATH so that when I said "cabal install mtl" it saw GHC 7.8. It correctly added -dynamic-too and built both *.a and *.so in one go. This is very user-friendly. Still, I observed a few oddities.

Re: ghc-7.8.1 and stm

2014-02-18 Thread Carter Schonwald
Huh. I've just been assuming STM is a user land lib! Been installing it from hackage... On Tuesday, February 18, 2014, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi David, > > Am Dienstag, den 18.02.2014, 14:12 -0800 schrieb David Fox: > > It seems to me that the stm library that is supposed to be built into >

Re: ghc-7.8.1 and stm

2014-02-18 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi David, Am Dienstag, den 18.02.2014, 14:12 -0800 schrieb David Fox: > It seems to me that the stm library that is supposed to be built into > ghc-7.8.1 is missing. The deb provides and conflicts with > libghc-stm-dev , but does not provide libghc-stm-dev-2.4.2.1-abcde. this seems to be the res