Mac OS X

2005-09-19 Thread Serge D. Mechveliani
Dear GHC supporters, I have received a letter from a potential DoCon user * I've downloaded docon 2.08. I am interested in trying to build docon. I'm using ghc 6.4 intalled on my Mac OS X machine. I've run into an erro and it

RE: .hc files for building ghc-6.4.1 on amd64 ?

2005-09-19 Thread Simon Marlow
On 17 September 2005 22:05, Wilhelm B. Kloke wrote: I tried it again today. One of my problems was related to gmake version. The configure script should warn, if gmake is older than 3.80 (I had 3.78). I'm using 3.79.1. I do vaguely remember a problem with older versions of gmake - what

Re: .hc files for building ghc-6.4.1 on amd64 ?

2005-09-19 Thread Wilhelm B. Kloke
Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On 17 September 2005 22:05, Wilhelm B. Kloke wrote: I tried it again today. One of my problems was related to gmake version. The configure script should warn, if gmake is older than 3.80 (I had 3.78). I'm using 3.79.1. I do vaguely remember a

RE: .hc files for building ghc-6.4.1 on amd64 ?

2005-09-19 Thread Simon Marlow
On 19 September 2005 12:45, Wilhelm B. Kloke wrote: I tried (cd ghc/rts ; gmake all) after (cd ghc/compiler ; gmake stage=2 ) You should try a 'gmake -k' in ghc/rts, that might be enough to get the required .hc files. I have further information now. When compiling Linker.c, the

ghc 6.4.1 for OS X from darwinports

2005-09-19 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi, GHC 6.4.1 is now available for OS X via the darwinports system. The compiler is built from source, using a binary bootstrap compilier. Both 10.3 (Panther) and 10.4 (TIger) are supported. For more information on darwinports, see: http://darwinports.opendarwin.org Best Wishes, Greg

C/Haskell speed comparisons

2005-09-19 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all, Quite often in darcs we want to do a simple loop over a chunk of memory, looking for the first whitespace character or somesuch. Historically this has been done by writing a small snippet of C, but this has a number of downsides (less type safety in the C code, Int/int/HsInt/CInt