RE: threadWaitRead/threadWaitWrite
George Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have some code which uses threadWaitRead and > threadWaitWrite which I'd like to make more portable. > Is it possible to approximate them in a way > which works for Hugs98 and Haskell 4.02? If not, as they > look fairly useful, could they be added to the standard > Concurrent module? > Support for these two are coming soon for ghc-4.xx. When there's a Hugs release out that also uses the new RTS, then it could quite easily have them too - supporting these prims on top of Hugs' current implementation of Conc. Haskell doesn't appear feasible. --sigbjorn
RE: gcc ist confused by being installed on //D/
> I recently tried to install GHC 4.02 with Cygwin on NT. Since my C: > harddisk was nearly full I tried to install it on D which is > called //D/ in bash. Everything runs ok, even Perl was pretty > motivated. But every run of the compiler failed since gcc couldn't > be found. I checked the directories in the Perl script but everything > seemed to be ok. It's due to the //D/ in front of every path: I > reformatted my C harddrive to include my Linux partition, now GHC > works without complaints. Was it wrong to > reformat my harddrive? > > Wonders > Axel. On Thu, 6 May 1999, Sigbjorn Finne (Intl Vendor) wrote: > > Did you install cygwin in a directory other than what the > cygwin installer suggested as default? If you did, then the > environment variable GCC_EXEC_PREFIX needs to be set > accordingly. Other than that, the ghc driver just assumes that > 'gcc' can be found somewhere along your path. > > --sigbjorn > I am not sure if I have checked the path of gcc. But I didn't use the default directory for CYGWIN when installing on drive C: and it works nevertheless. But never mind since it works by now. Thanks, Axel.
RE: GHC does not like modules starting with Z?
> I am a long-time Hugs user, but am relatively new to ghc. > I've been trying to get a Makefile working, with little success. > After much investigation, the problem seems to be not with my Makefile, > but that ghc does not like modules whose names start with 'Z'. > > Seems that a module called Zabc (in file Zabc.lhs) generates a > Zabc.hi file whose first line is: > > __interface ZZabc 1 402 where > ^^ Note the repeated Z. >This repetition does not seem to happen for other > module names! > > Is this a bug? I saw this reported by someone else a month or two ago; it was fixed soon after. Get a newer version, or use the obvious workaround. --FC
