Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghc ./configure stalls on docbook DTD

2009-05-18 Thread Simon Marlow
On 13/05/2009 19:53, Donnie Jones wrote: Hello Dan, Best place to ask is glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org since that is the GHC users list. I have CC'd your email to the GHC user list. Cheers. -- Donnie Jones On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Dandanielkc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Not sure if

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghc ./configure stalls on docbook DTD

2009-05-13 Thread Donnie Jones
Hello Dan, Best place to ask is glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org since that is the GHC users list. I have CC'd your email to the GHC user list. Cheers. -- Donnie Jones On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Dan danielkc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Not sure if this is the right place to ask. GHC

Re: ghc configure

2007-06-23 Thread Claus Reinke
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 13:02, Claus Reinke wrote: [...] would it be possible to have a configuration package with nothing but the common checks? then every package, and ghc itself, could depend on that package being there, and every package configure could modularly use the information from that

Re: ghc configure

2007-05-01 Thread Simon Marlow
C.M.Brown wrote: I've noticed that when you run ./configure on a ghc build lot's of repetition occurs. A lot of the time the same checks are being performed for each configure file in the ghc hierarchy. Could it be possible if some of these checks could be done once at a high level and then

Re: ghc configure

2007-05-01 Thread C.M.Brown
Hi Simon, Mainly this is due to modularity: many of the library packages can be built entirely separately from GHC, so their configure scripts are designed to be standalone. Yes, I guess it would be a fair bit of work to have it check that you are building the whole of GHC as opposed to

Re: ghc configure

2007-05-01 Thread Claus Reinke
Mainly this is due to modularity: many of the library packages can be built entirely separately from GHC, so their configure scripts are designed to be standalone. library packages are haskell packages, and much of the configuration data should be common (plus a few package-specific checks).

ghc configure

2007-04-26 Thread C.M.Brown
Hi, I've noticed that when you run ./configure on a ghc build lot's of repetition occurs. A lot of the time the same checks are being performed for each configure file in the ghc hierarchy. Could it be possible if some of these checks could be done once at a high level and then subsequent