Re: ghc fails with HOME not set, fixing right now

2011-03-25 Thread Christian Maeder
ghc should not fail if HOME is not set. It certainly cannot look up local packages then, but ghc should work without those, too. ghc is a compiler like gcc. Does gcc need HOME? Cheers Christian Am 25.03.2011 08:26, schrieb Joachim Breitner: Hi, new FTBFS coming up: ghc fails if HOME is not s

Fwd: ghc in debian sid

2011-03-07 Thread Christian Maeder
Maybe debian-haskell@lists.debian.org can say more about this. Cheers Christian Original-Nachricht Betreff: ghc in debian sid Datum: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 04:59:21 -0800 (PST) Von: rustom An: haskell-c...@haskell.org Newsgruppen: gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe I tried to move from deb

Re: Policy rewrite

2010-11-05 Thread Christian Maeder
Am 05.11.2010 15:45, schrieb Joachim Breitner: > Hi, > > I started to write down what I think should be in a revised Haskell > policy. The old one was outdated in that it mentioned multiple compilers > and was written before the advent of triggers and ABI-based hashes. > > I wrote a chapter about

Re: libghc6-gtk-dev for lucid and maverick

2010-10-05 Thread Christian Maeder
Am 05.10.2010 11:28, schrieb Iain Lane: > Hiya, > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 10:44:23AM +0200, Christian Maeder wrote: >> Am 04.10.2010 13:46, schrieb Joachim Breitner: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Am Samstag, den 02.10.2010, 16:47 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner: >&

Re: libghc6-gtk-dev for lucid and maverick

2010-10-05 Thread Christian Maeder
Am 04.10.2010 13:46, schrieb Joachim Breitner: > Hi, > > Am Samstag, den 02.10.2010, 16:47 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner: >> I just had a look at the issue, backported the changes from 0.11.2 to >> 0.11.0 (we really don’t want to update more than necessary at this stage >> of the freeze) but did

Re: libghc6-gtk-dev for lucid and maverick

2010-09-23 Thread Christian Maeder
Am 23.09.2010 14:50, schrieb Andy Stewart: > Christian Maeder writes: > >> [adding gtk2hs-us...@lists.sourceforge.net] >> >> Am 23.09.2010 14:13, schrieb Joachim Breitner: >> [...] >> >>> I just had a look at the output of >>> $ diff -ur gt

Re: libghc6-gtk-dev for lucid and maverick

2010-09-23 Thread Christian Maeder
[adding gtk2hs-us...@lists.sourceforge.net] Am 23.09.2010 14:13, schrieb Joachim Breitner: [...] > I just had a look at the output of > $ diff -ur gtk-0.11.0/ gtk-0.11.2/ > and there many changes there (plus bumped dependencies on glib, pango, > cairo). I have doubts that the release team will be

libghc6-gtk-dev for lucid and maverick

2010-09-17 Thread Christian Maeder
Hi, libghc6-gtk-dev for lucid is based on the non-hackage gtk2hs release 0.10.1 (that normally does not compile using ghc-6.12.1) Whereas libghc6-gtk-dev for maverick is based on http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gtk-0.11.0 Unfortunately, due to a bug in gtk-0.11.0 our hets application does the

Re: ghci 6.10.1+dfsg1-4 segfaults on powerpc

2009-02-05 Thread Christian Maeder
Shyamal Prasad wrote: > Now I am really confused. On my debian powerpc system I see > > shya...@turtle:~$ uname > Linux > shya...@turtle:~$ ld -v > GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.18.0.20080103 me too. This combination seems to be buggy: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/487 http://h

Re: ghci 6.10.1+dfsg1-4 segfaults on powerpc

2009-02-04 Thread Christian Maeder
> >> $ ghci GHCi, version 6.10.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for > >> help Segmentation fault > >> > >> This is on an up to date lenny system (the only thing installed > >> outside of testing is ghc6). > > Christian> Is this seq-fault maybe also caused by not having XC

Re: ghci 6.10.1+dfsg1-4 segfaults on powerpc

2009-02-03 Thread Christian Maeder
Shyamal Prasad wrote: > Hi, > > It seems that ghci for powerpc in experimental still segfaults on > startup. > > $ ghci > GHCi, version 6.10.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help > Segmentation fault > > This is on an up to date lenny system (the only thing installed > outside of testing