> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Isaac Jones wrote:
> > Can anyone enlighten me as to the state of the ghc6 sparc
> > distribution? The file on Hal's web page mentioned some
> time back is
> > not the same file as on the GHC web page (I note that the filenames
> > are different also).
> >
> > Are any of them known to work if installed in a non-standard place?
> >
> Here at Chalmers we use the first shipped version (I believe
> this is the
> one on the GHC web page or an even earlier one...). I patched
> it myself,
> it was very easy. I expect that the version on Hal's web page
> should work since he said he fixed the bug.
Hal's version still has problems, I believe. He said that he will try
to fix the problems soon.
> The only thing that I don't like is that the dist isn't compiled with
> readline. It makes working in ghci a nightmare (I need to use
> backspace
> often...). The problem around this is in my opinion to make a
> Haskell98
> compliant trimmed down readline library which doesn't depend on the c
> library. It shouldn't be too difficult. I don't expect that people are
> using the full power of readline anyway.
Making a working readline isn't that simple - you need to know something
about the terminal properties for one, which means being able to use
termcap or terminfo.
Cheers,
Simon
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