Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.2.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-08-05 Thread Jens Petersen
On 5 August 2011 05:27, Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li wrote: from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=3251249name=build.log . | *** unexpected failure for fed001(normal) but it works fine for me on x86/Linux. Note the Fedora build is patched to use system libffi. Hmm. What

Re: GHCJS

2011-08-05 Thread Simon Marlow
On 04/08/2011 21:02, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: | data LiteralDesugaring m = |LiteralDesugaring | { desugarInt :: MonadThings m = Integer - m CoreExpr | , desugarWord :: MonadThings m = Integer - m CoreExpr ... I am not sure why you want to control the desugaring of literals.

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.2.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-08-05 Thread Simon Marlow
On 05/08/2011 08:45, Jens Petersen wrote: On 5 August 2011 05:27, Ian Lynaghig...@earth.li wrote: from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=3251249name=build.log . | *** unexpected failure for fed001(normal) but it works fine for me on x86/Linux. Note the Fedora build is

FlexibleInstances Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.2.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-08-05 Thread Christian Maeder
Hi, I've noticed that with ghc-7.2 many modules with LANGUAGE TypeSynonymInstances now also require FlexibleInstances Two examples are in the HTTP package Network.TCP and Network.BufferType Was ghc-7.0 wrong about this, before? Cheers Christian Am 29.07.2011 20:21, schrieb Ian Lynagh: We

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.2.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-08-05 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Freitag, den 05.08.2011, 09:46 +0100 schrieb Simon Marlow: I don't like having to do this, but it reduces our testing surface (we don't want to have to test against N different versions of libffi). I'm quite happy for distros to build against their system libffi though, and we

Re: FlexibleInstances Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.2.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-08-05 Thread Christian Maeder
I've just found http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5377 which explains it. C. Am 05.08.2011 12:56, schrieb Christian Maeder: Hi, I've noticed that with ghc-7.2 many modules with LANGUAGE TypeSynonymInstances now also require FlexibleInstances Two examples are in the HTTP package

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.2.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-08-05 Thread Simon Marlow
On 05/08/2011 12:08, Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi, Am Freitag, den 05.08.2011, 09:46 +0100 schrieb Simon Marlow: I don't like having to do this, but it reduces our testing surface (we don't want to have to test against N different versions of libffi). I'm quite happy for distros to build

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.2.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-08-05 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:57:40PM +1000, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: The RC unfortunately doesn't build on Lion (OS X 10.7). I've put the latest 7.2 source here, along with OS X builds: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.2.1-rc2/ My guess is that the bindists will work on Lion, but that