Re: Building GHC on Windows

2009-02-23 Thread Simon Marlow
Sigbjorn Finne wrote: Simon Marlow wrote: Felix Martini wrote: . All this is likely trivial to fix but at the same time these little roadblocks may also explain why few developers on Windows contribute code to GHC and Haskell. I haven't tried sync-all on Windows - can anyone help out her

Re: Building GHC on Windows

2009-02-21 Thread Felix Martini
Sigbjorn Finne: > ok. Surely you could just temporarily set it as such, followed by config'ing > it for that repo only > rather than have it be global? I suspect tweaking that one file instead will > just be the first of > many such tweaks.. Yes, that would be the best solution if i want to downlo

Re: Building GHC on Windows

2009-02-21 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Felix Martini wrote: Sigbjorn Finne: It works fine, but be mindful of how 'git' handles crlf translations on Windows. Having run into this a couple of times, it certainly looks the likely cause. Felix may want to try cloning as follows: foo$ git config --global core.autocrlf false foo$ git

Re: Building GHC on Windows

2009-02-21 Thread Felix Martini
Sigbjorn Finne: > It works fine, but be mindful of how 'git' handles crlf translations on > Windows. > Having run into this a couple of times, it certainly looks the likely cause. > Felix > may want to try cloning as follows: > > foo$ git config --global core.autocrlf false > foo$ git clone http:

Re: Building GHC on Windows

2009-02-21 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Simon Marlow wrote: Felix Martini wrote: . All this is likely trivial to fix but at the same time these little roadblocks may also explain why few developers on Windows contribute code to GHC and Haskell. I haven't tried sync-all on Windows - can anyone help out here? It works fine, but

Re: Building GHC on Windows

2009-02-19 Thread Simon Marlow
Felix Martini wrote: Simon Marlow has recently posted a patch that adds Unicode support to Handle I/O. He mentioned that it didn't work yet on Windows so i was thinking of looking at the source code to see how the new Unicode support works and perhaps try to make it work on Windows. Thanks - I'