RE: the woes of non-cvs haskellers

2004-02-05 Thread Mike Thomas
Hi Claus. | A broader approach would be to try and show a united Haskell | tools front to the general Haskeller: Identify a core set of Haskell | tools (the above four would be my initial suggestion), and make | sure that the latest binary releases for these are always in synch | with each other.

RE: ghc 6.2 gets confused about Main.hi reuse

2004-02-05 Thread Simon Marlow
> > >The -ohi flag lets you rename the interface file, or > -hisuf is useful > > >for renaming a whole bunch of interface files if you want to build > > >modules in two different ways in the same directory. > > > > We use -hidir/-odir to build for different platforms, so the only > > problem co

RE: the woes of non-cvs haskellers

2004-02-05 Thread Simon Marlow
> Towards the end of last year I started experimenting with > modified "nightly" > build scripts to build in one fell swoop ghc (and it's > libraries), alex, > happy, greencard and hdirect. > > I backed off for three reasons, one was other tasks, the > second was that I > felt I was possibly g

Re: the woes of non-cvs haskellers

2004-02-05 Thread Claus Reinke
[hugs-bugs removed from cc, this seems focussed on GHC?] > Towards the end of last year I started experimenting with modified "nightly" > build scripts to build in one fell swoop ghc (and it's libraries), alex, > happy, greencard and hdirect. |Speaking from a GHC standpoint, your efforts were/are

Re: ghc 6.2 gets confused about Main.hi reuse

2004-02-05 Thread Claus Reinke
>> The simplest approach would be to take the presence of -o as a >> strong hint that there might be confusion about executables/Main >> modules and thus to rename the Main.hi-file as well when -o is >> present. >What you're really doing here is building a library that is subsequently >used when b