On 10 February 2005 15:13, Malcolm Wallace wrote: > "Simon Marlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> We are finally at the release candidate stage for GHC 6.4. >> Please test if you're able to, and give us feedback. > > In versions 5.00 <= ghc <= 6.2.2, the result of > > ghc -v 2>&1 | head -2 > > was something like > > Glasgow Haskell Compiler, Version 6.2.2, .... > Using package config file: /grp/haskell/lib/ghc-6.2.2/package.conf > > whereas with 6.4, these two lines have been swapped: > > Reading package config file: > /usr/malcolm/local/lib/ghc-6.4.20050209/package.conf Glasgow > Haskell Compiler, Version 6.4.20050209, .... > > and the "Using package config" message has become "Reading package > config". These changes are minor and unnecessary: in particular they > make the detection of configuration information (by hmake) rather > more complicated than it ought to be. I know this is a pretty trivial > complaint, but the -v behaviour has been stable for a few years now, > so why change it arbitrarily?
Ok, fixed. The right way to get the location of the package.conf file is to ask ghc-pkg, BTW. In fact, the right way is not to know the location of package.conf at all, but to use ghc-pkg to query its contents. The contents of package.conf is proprietary :-) Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users