On 09/16/2013 09:48 AM, Jan Stolarek wrote: > There will be a major change in primops pushed into HEAD, hopefully with next > 24 hours. This change breaks backwards compatibility for comparison primops and ONCE IT IS PUSHED will require you to: > > 1) Upgrade to latest versions of Alex and Happy (cabal update && cabal install alex happy). These versions are not yet available. When they are DO NOT INSTALL THEM UNTIL CHANGES ARE PUSHED INTO HEAD. > > 2) Blow away your build. Be sure to run ./configure to pick up new versions of Alex and Happy > > 3) Rebase your branches on top of HEAD, if these branches were in a repository affected by primop change. Repositories that will be affected: GHC, testsuite, array, base, dph, ghc-prim, integer-gmp, integer-simple, primitive, template-haskell. > > Janek
Does point #1 mean that these versions of alex and happy are not backwards compatible, i.e., that they generate code that is only compatible with the very latest, new-primop, version of ghc that you are about to push? That seems like it would be a bad situation to be in... Geoff _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
