Problem with xargs and ar

2001-10-25 Thread Lauri Alanko
Hello. Just a nasty build bug with 5.02 that I encountered. When building the prelude library, the individual object files are turned to an archive with "xargs ar q libHSstd.a". Now, for some reason, on this system, GNU ar fails at some point during this process. The standard solaris ar works all

Re: whitespace in strings (was "ghc misreports the error line")

2001-10-25 Thread George Russell
Malcolm Wallace wrote, answering me: > > On the contrary I'm glad to see that the Haskell standard is so sensible. > > I edit Haskell using XEmacs, and I don't want to have to do an octal > > or hexadecimal dump of my source code to determine whether a string > > contains a tab, newline, return,

RE: ghc misreports the error line

2001-10-25 Thread Simon Marlow
> And note that no compiler/interpreter currently rejects a string > containing a literal tab character. My working version of GHC does :-) Simon ___ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-h