Re: How to start with GHC development?

2012-12-15 Thread Jan Stolarek
Dnia piątek, 14 grudnia 2012, Ian Lynagh napisał: I think the main problem is that it's a very broad question. The answer to how should I get started would be completely different for if you wanted to implement a type system extension, port GHC to a new platform, or fix a bug in ghci All three

Re: How to start with GHC development?

2012-12-15 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 09:41:12AM +0100, Jan Stolarek wrote: Dnia piątek, 14 grudnia 2012, Ian Lynagh napisał: I think the main problem is that it's a very broad question. The answer to how should I get started would be completely different for if you wanted to implement a type system

Re: How to start with GHC development?

2012-12-15 Thread Jan Stolarek
OK, so how can we improve it? First of all I think that materials in the wiki are well organized for people who already have some knowledge and only need to learn about particular things they don't yet know. In this case I think it is fine to have wiki pages connected between one another so

Separating build tree from the source tree

2012-12-15 Thread Jan Stolarek
Dear list, I have a GHC source tree in ghc-working. I would like to have a separate build tree in ghc-build, so I did something like this: mkdir ghc-build cd ghc-build lndir ../ghc-working Now, I have two different machines. On openSUSE with git 1.8.0 I get something like this:

Re: Separating build tree from the source tree

2012-12-15 Thread Mikhail Glushenkov
Hi Jan, On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Jan Stolarek jan.stola...@p.lodz.pl wrote: Dear list, I have a GHC source tree in ghc-working. I would like to have a separate build tree in ghc-build, so I did something like this: mkdir ghc-build cd ghc-build lndir ../ghc-working Now, I have