I'm trying to build diverse packages from Hackage with ghc 6.8.1,
they usually fail to build because of missing language extensions.
Sometimes I am unable to determine the proper name of the extension
missing in .cabal
I tend to slap {- #OPTIONS -fglasgow-exts #-} at the top of the
troublesome file.
It works, but out of curiosity, what is the downside of such an
approach ? (bigger executables ?)
Can you list which packages failed to build out of the box?
-- Don
Well I'd say none of the packages I've tried, build out of the box,
that include :
haskelldb
haskelldb-hdbc
haskelldb-hdbc-sqlite3
HDBC
HDBC-sqlite3
Agreed some of these compile right after tweeking the build-depends:
and extensions: lines in the .cabal file
(apart from the pesky PatternSignatures which require a LANGUAGE
pragma in the source file)
haskelldb-hdbc-sqlite3 is the one that I couldn't get past...
I didn't bother with hsql-mysql-1.7 since Duncan Coutts mentioned it
required significant work (and I cannot do much)
Manu
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