Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-17 Thread Dave Bayer
On Dec 14, 2009, at 6:24 AM, Marc Weber wrote: You should be able to get some hints by looking at where ghc is installed. For any install of this sort, I like to record where the changes were made. Before an install, I execute the shell command echo timestamp Then I install, then I

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-15 Thread flw
After I installed GHC-6.12.1, the cabal-install program could not works normally. $ sudo cabal install cabal: failed to parse output of 'ghc-pkg dump' $ please help me. ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-15 Thread Simon Marlow
On 14/12/09 21:16, Daniel Fischer wrote: Am Montag 14 Dezember 2009 14:36:14 schrieb Ian Lynagh: == The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.12.1

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-15 Thread Simon Marlow
On 14/12/09 19:04, Jost Berthold wrote: Luca, to use Control.Parallel, you need to download and install two packages, deepseq and parallel, from hackage.haskell.org. Most likely this will work with cabal, or you just download the two tarballs . cabal install parallel (assuming you have a

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-15 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 06:41:06AM +, Luca Ciciriello wrote: BTW, reading the new wiki library page I've noticed that I can use atomically, pseq, par, forkIO, etc, simply importing GHC.Conc Note that that is not a supported interface, and may break in future releases. Thanks Ian

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-15 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Dienstag 15 Dezember 2009 10:43:10 schrieb Simon Marlow: Please submit a bug report. Presumably we need a configure test for -lz somewhere. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3756 Yes, passing -optl-lz to all tests gave only 3 unexpected failures for threaded1. Cheers,

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-15 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 06:06:26PM +, Robin Green wrote: I have been using GHC 6.12.1 from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.12.1-pre/ (which doesn't exist any more). Do I need to upgrade, or is it exactly the same? Do I need to recompile packages? I wouldn't recommend using unannounced

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-15 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 03:24:05PM +0100, Bas van Dijk wrote: There's a broken link to the Haskell Platform in: http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.1/html/users_guide/release-6-12-1.html#id2890234 Thanks; fixed with a redirect. Thanks Ian ___

ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-14 Thread Ian Lynagh
== The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.12.1 == The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC. There have been a number of

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-14 Thread Robin Green
I have been using GHC 6.12.1 from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.12.1-pre/ (which doesn't exist any more). Do I need to upgrade, or is it exactly the same? Do I need to recompile packages? -- Robin ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-14 Thread Malcolm Wallace
I've the 6.10.4 version installed on my MacOS X 10.6 OS. Have I to uninstall this version of GHC before installing the Mac .pkg for the 6.12.1? Most installer packages (_except_ for MacOS) allow you to have multiple previous versions of ghc - they are simply left in place (but must now

RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-14 Thread Luca Ciciriello
Installed 6.12.1 on MacOS X 10.6Now I'm unable to load in GHCi of that modules containing import Control.ParallelI'm missing something? Luca From: marco-owe...@gmx.de To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:24:48 +0100 Subject: RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-14 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Montag 14 Dezember 2009 17:47:35 schrieb Luca Ciciriello: Installed 6.12.1 on MacOS X 10.6Now I'm unable to load in GHCi of that modules containing import Control.ParallelI'm missing something? Luca cabal install parallel Control.Parallel is now in the parallel package.

RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-14 Thread Jost Berthold
into ghci is a handy debugging procedure for the sequential parts of your program without any hassle, but if you do not compile and link your program, it will not use any parallelism (and run slow anyway). From: Luca Ciciriello luca_cicirie...@hotmail.com Subject: RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-14 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Dec 14, 2009, at 14:04 , Jost Berthold wrote: The reason is, when packaging parallel, this package has been removed from the GHC core libraries. BTW I am unsure whether this is at all clever, since it needs specific GHC support (at least for now - am I right here?) Only to the extent

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-14 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Montag 14 Dezember 2009 14:36:14 schrieb Ian Lynagh: == The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.12.1 == Hooray! Built from source on $ uname -a

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-14 Thread Daniel Fischer
Oh great, that's not what I expected: $ cabal install cabal-install cabal: This version of the cabal program is too old to work with ghc-6.12+. You will need to install the 'cabal-install' package version 0.8 or higher. If you still have an older ghc installed (eg 6.10.4), run: $ cabal install -w

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-14 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 22:49 +0100, Daniel Fischer wrote: Oh great, that's not what I expected: $ cabal install cabal-install cabal: This version of the cabal program is too old to work with ghc-6.12+. You will need to install the 'cabal-install' package version 0.8 or higher. If you still

RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

2009-12-14 Thread Luca Ciciriello
...@mathematik.uni-marburg.de Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1 Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:25:21 -0500 On Dec 14, 2009, at 14:04 , Jost Berthold wrote: The reason is, when packaging parallel, this package has been removed from the GHC core libraries. BTW I am unsure whether this is at all