Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on suse 9.2 x86 or x86-64)

2005-02-23 Thread Jens Petersen
Brian Strand wrote: Unfortunately I'm still stuck on x86-64, since there are no "official" binaries to bootstrap from on that platform. But at least I have a ghc to play with while waiting for x86-64 to become official. There is a x86_64 build already in Fedora Haskell. Perhaps you can try it?

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on suse 9.2 x86 or x86-64)

2005-02-23 Thread Wolfgang Thaller
Brian Strand wrote: I originally tried the binary distribution but ran into library issues. That is of course the obvious path to try, and try it I did. Rather than going straight to installing deprecated libraries, I tried to provide some feedback on ghc (especially since 6.4 RCs are out). We

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on suse 9.2 x86 or x86-64)

2005-02-23 Thread Brian Strand
Wolfgang Thaller wrote: Thanks, good to know; I'll read through 10.2 more carefully. I didn't think I'd need to cross-compile x86-linux to x86-linux. You don't need to - the recommended way is to download a binary version. If you don't like using binary distributions, then use it for bootstrap

Re: Getting ghci to work (Mac OS X & ghc-6.5 from CVS)

2005-02-23 Thread Wolfgang Thaller
Hi I got ghc-6.5 prerelease from the CVS and managed to get it up and running, *except* for ghci, the interactive part. It worked last time I tried. Is there something in particular that I need to think about to make ghci support get compiled into ghc? When using ghc-inplace, make sure you're usi

Getting ghci to work (Mac OS X & ghc-6.5 from CVS)

2005-02-23 Thread Johan Glimming
Hi I got ghc-6.5 prerelease from the CVS and managed to get it up and running, *except* for ghci, the interactive part. Is there something in particular that I need to think about to make ghci support get compiled into ghc? Johan Glimming. ___ Glasgow

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on suse 9.2 x86 or x86-64)

2005-02-23 Thread Wolfgang Thaller
Thanks, good to know; I'll read through 10.2 more carefully. I didn't think I'd need to cross-compile x86-linux to x86-linux. You don't need to - the recommended way is to download a binary version. If you don't like using binary distributions, then use it for bootstrapping only, i.e. use it to

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on suse 9.2 x86 or x86-64)

2005-02-23 Thread Brian Strand
Simon Marlow wrote: On 22 February 2005 20:05, Brian Strand wrote: [ snipped ] You actually need the .hc source files too, which don't come with the source distribution because they have to be built for each target platform. That section of the Building Guide wasn't really clear enough on this issu

RE: GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on suse 9.2 x86or x86-64)

2005-02-23 Thread Simon Marlow
On 22 February 2005 20:05, Brian Strand wrote: > I'm having some serious "issues" getting GHC to run on Suse 9.2/x86 > (or x86-64 for that matter, although I didn't really expect that to > work without some pain and suffering). I've had no luck with 6.2.2, > or any 6.4 release candidate. Here is

RE: GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on suse 9.2 x86 or x86-64)

2005-02-23 Thread Simon Marlow
On 23 February 2005 11:01, Brian Strand wrote: > Thanks a lot! For anyone who runs into the same problem, here is > what I did: > > 1. Converted to an rpm via "alien -r ghc6_6.2.2-3_amd64.deb" > 2. Installed the resulting rpm. > 3. When I tried to run ghc6, I got > > /usr/lib/ghc-6.2.2 # /usr/b

RE: RFC: hyperlinks in Haddock docs

2005-02-23 Thread Simon Marlow
On 22 February 2005 19:37, Duncan Coutts wrote: > Excellent! Thanks a lot. > > Any hint as to when the next Haddock release will be? Maybe when I've got this GHC release out of the way and my hair has grown back :-S Simon ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mai

RE: Configuring in directories with spaces fails in ghc6.4

2005-02-23 Thread Simon Marlow
On 22 February 2005 14:35, Malcolm Wallace wrote: > However, it could be worthwhile halting with an error message. > > case `pwd` in > *' '*) > echo "Error: nhc98 will not build in a directory with spaces > anywhere" echo " in the full pathname." > echo "Su

RE: GHC-problem with parsing infix type synonyms - bug?

2005-02-23 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
OK, done. I've documented infix classes too. Simon | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johan Glimming | Sent: 17 February 2005 10:04 | To: ; Simon Marlow | Subject: Re: GHC-problem with parsing infix type synonym

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on suse 9.2 x86 or x86-64)

2005-02-23 Thread Brian Strand
Anders Höckersten wrote: ... There are some debian packages of ghc 6.2.2 and related stuff for amd64 located here: http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64/pool/unstable/main/amd64/g/ghc6/ Hopefully you can find some way to convert these to a format you can install (there are programs for

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on suse 9.2 x86 or x86-64)

2005-02-23 Thread Anders Höckersten
Brian Strand wrote: Jens Petersen wrote: Brian Strand wrote: Hello, I'm having some serious "issues" getting GHC to run on Suse 9.2/x86 (or x86-64 for that matter, although I didn't really expect that to work without some pain and suffering). I've had no luck with 6.2.2, or any 6.4 release cand

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on suse 9.2 x86 or x86-64)

2005-02-23 Thread Brian Strand
Jens Petersen wrote: Brian Strand wrote: Hello, I'm having some serious "issues" getting GHC to run on Suse 9.2/x86 (or x86-64 for that matter, although I didn't really expect that to work without some pain and suffering). I've had no luck with 6.2.2, or any 6.4 release candidate. Here is a typ