RE: Getting source code

2007-11-08 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
. Simon | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of | Richard Giraud | Sent: 08 November 2007 04:08 | To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | Subject: Re: Getting source code | | I figured out a way to work around it. | | Instead of pulling all

Re: Getting source code

2007-11-08 Thread kahl
It would also be nice to have the case issue with Mac OS X document, as recent file systems have been case-insensitive for a while. Just a quick note: At Mac OS X install time (or other file system creation time) you can choose case sensitivity for HPFS+ (the default file system on Mac OS

Re: Getting source code on Mac OS X

2007-11-08 Thread richardg
I did some more digging and it looks like Mac OS X (BASH? BASH on Mac OS X? BSD? POSIX?) limits the number of files that a program can have open. Increasing this limit makes the issue disappear. By default, user accounts are limited to 256 open files (per process?) but this can be changed with

Getting source code

2007-11-07 Thread richardg
Hello I'm trying to get the source code for development purposes (helping add some Haddock documentation for TH). I tried following the steps listed on http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources and ran into trouble. I downloaded

Re: Getting source code

2007-11-07 Thread Richard Giraud
I figured out a way to work around it. Instead of pulling all patches at once, I pulled 100 at a time. Instead of using darcs pull -a in step 3, I used darcs pull. I held down y until about 100 or so patches were accepted and then hit d to stop applying patches. After doing this 6 times,