Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-27 Thread Claus Reinke
[if this thread has to keep running, could you please drop me of the cc? and how did it manage to end up on haskell@ - that is the wrong list ] In that case, though, would you happen to know which value in the registry would allow me to override HOMEPATH for GHCi? if you go to the beginning of

Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-25 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
--- Juanma Barranquero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > Though, if you're using Emacs on Windows and you do > want it to use a > different HOME you can set > HOME=C:\this\is\my\emacs\home as a new > string value in the HKLM\Software\Gnu\Emacs key of > the registry. > On Dec 25, 2007 2:36 AM,

Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-24 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
--- Juanma Barranquero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > Though, if you're using Emacs on Windows and you do > want it to use a > different HOME you can set > HOME=C:\this\is\my\emacs\home as a new > string value in the HKLM\Software\Gnu\Emacs key of > the registry. The registry ... I hadn't t

Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-21 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
Thank you; yes, that will work for the time being, until an option for specifying the %HOME% directory is re-incorporated back into a future version of GHCi. It would probably be better if GHCi simply looked for .ghci in the location specified by the %HOME% environmental variable (which can be cus

Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-21 Thread Chris Kuklewicz
Benjamin L. Russell wrote: > Will a binary version of 6.8.2 be released any time > soon for Mac OS X 10.5.x Leopard running on a PowerPC, > as opposed to an Intel? > > I have a first-generation aluminum PowerBook with a > PowerPC currently running Mac OS X 10.2.8 Jaguar, and > am considering upgra

Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-20 Thread Hugo Pacheco
Hmm, basically, the build from the GHC site ssimply installs the executables, every libary file is missing somehow (all the base package.. etc) Therefore I have two options to have a working 6.8.x installation: - wait around a week for a new macport (preferable) - try to install the missing librar

Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-20 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
Will a binary version of 6.8.2 be released any time soon for Mac OS X 10.5.x Leopard running on a PowerPC, as opposed to an Intel? I have a first-generation aluminum PowerBook with a PowerPC currently running Mac OS X 10.2.8 Jaguar, and am considering upgrading to Leopard next month, but want to i

Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-20 Thread Hugo Pacheco
But is it like days, weeks, months? I really need GHC installed on my intel mac w/ leopard. How can I build the libraries in the current leopard release? ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell

Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-20 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi, On Dec 20, 2007, at 2:31 PM, Hugo Pacheco wrote: >From the ghc-6.8.2 sources then, I'm just afraid of possible errors, and I don't have any previous ghc installed. Do the sources permit bootstrapping? From what I know... The source distribution needs an installed GHC (version 6.0 at l

Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-20 Thread Hugo Pacheco
>From the ghc-6.8.2 sources then, I'm just afraid of possible errors, and I don't have any previous ghc installed. Do the sources permit bootstrapping? From what I know... *The source distribution needs an installed GHC (version 6.0 at least). If your platform isn't currently supported with a bina

Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-20 Thread Alex Jacobson
My experience with the mac stuff is that you are just better off building everything yourself. It runs in the background while you go eat dinner and then you are done. -Alex- Hugo Pacheco wrote: The binaries do work in Leopard, but it misses all library files, such as System.IO. How can I bu

Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-20 Thread Hugo Pacheco
The binaries do work in Leopard, but it misses all library files, such as System.IO. How can I build them form the sources? I have no cabal-install as well. and the macports 6.6 is broken. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.or

Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-20 Thread Simon Marlow
Benjamin L. Russell wrote: This fixed the problem, and on Windows XP Professional, I was able to set GHCi to find .ghci in %HOMEPATH%, which turned out to be c:\Documents and Settings\. However, I would like to override this setting, and either have GHCi look for .ghci in %HOME%, as opposed to %

Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-19 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
This fixed the problem, and on Windows XP Professional, I was able to set GHCi to find .ghci in %HOMEPATH%, which turned out to be c:\Documents and Settings\. However, I would like to override this setting, and either have GHCi look for .ghci in %HOME%, as opposed to %HOMEPATH% (so that this value

Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-19 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Jules Bean: Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: PS: Moreover, binaries produced by the above compiler will run on any Leopard box. That's great news. Can you add a note about how you achieved that to http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1540 please? My previous attempts to distribute ghc-

Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-18 Thread Jules Bean
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: PS: Moreover, binaries produced by the above compiler will run on any Leopard box. That's great news. Can you add a note about how you achieved that to http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1540 please? My previous attempts to distribute ghc-compiled softr

[Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-17 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
I wrote, Ian Lynagh wrote: = The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.8.2 = The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of GHC. This releas

[Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-13 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Alex Jacobson: Will this also work with Tiger or do I have to upgrade? I don't know. I have no box with Tiger to test. Give it a try. The worst that can happen is that it is going to complain about some missing libraries or similar. Manuel Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: Ian Lynagh wro

[Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-13 Thread Alex Jacobson
Will this also work with Tiger or do I have to upgrade? -Alex- Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: Ian Lynagh wrote: = The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.8.2 ==

[Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-13 Thread Claus Reinke
With the Windows release of GHC 6.8.2, GHCi does not find .ghci in %HOME% (though it finds it in the current directory): try %HOMEDRIVE% %HOMEPATH% instead? or the result of 'System.Directory.getHomeDirectory'. you might have set %HOME% to help some unix software along, but this variable doesn

[Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-12 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Ian Lynagh wrote: = The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.8.2 = The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of GHC. This release conta