RE: Download stats

2005-02-10 Thread Simon Marlow
On 09 February 2005 20:03, Tomasz Zielonka wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 01:11:34PM -, Simon Marlow wrote: Hi folks, For the forthcoming 6.4 release, we'd like to get a rough idea of download statistics, at least from haskell.org. Both Simon I are too busy/lazy (delete as

ghc sensitive to struct layout

2005-02-10 Thread Axel Simon
Good morning, gcc uses a different convention from the Microsoft environment when it comes to laying out fields in C structs, in particular bit fields. Can I pass the -optc--mms-bitfields to ghc when it compiles via C without negative effect? This flag is not implicit at the moment which I

GHC 6.4 release candidates available

2005-02-10 Thread Simon Marlow
We are finally at the release candidate stage for GHC 6.4. Snapshots with versions 6.4.20050209 and later should be considered release candidates for 6.4. Source and Linux binary distributions are avaiable here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ Please test if you're able to, and

RE: ghc sensitive to struct layout

2005-02-10 Thread Simon Marlow
On 09 February 2005 08:53, Axel Simon wrote: gcc uses a different convention from the Microsoft environment when it comes to laying out fields in C structs, in particular bit fields. Can I pass the -optc--mms-bitfields to ghc when it compiles via C without negative effect? This flag is not

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available

2005-02-10 Thread Malcolm Wallace
Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We are finally at the release candidate stage for GHC 6.4. Snapshots with versions 6.4.20050209 and later should be considered release candidates for 6.4. Using: ghc-6.4.20050209-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 $ cat hello.hs main = putStrLn hello

RE: GHC 6.4 release candidates available

2005-02-10 Thread Simon Marlow
On 10 February 2005 13:31, Malcolm Wallace wrote: Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We are finally at the release candidate stage for GHC 6.4. Snapshots with versions 6.4.20050209 and later should be considered release candidates for 6.4. Using:

RE: GHC 6.4 release candidates available

2005-02-10 Thread Simon Marlow
On 10 February 2005 13:40, Simon Marlow wrote: On 10 February 2005 13:31, Malcolm Wallace wrote: Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We are finally at the release candidate stage for GHC 6.4. Snapshots with versions 6.4.20050209 and later should be considered release candidates for

RE: Unregistering a package

2005-02-10 Thread Simon Marlow
On 09 February 2005 13:32, Peter Simons wrote: I have an interesting problem. There are two versions of the HsDNS package installed right now: $ ghc-pkg list | /usr/local/ghc-current/lib/ghc-6.5/package.conf: | rts-1.0, [...] (hsdns-2005-02-04), | hsdns-2005-02-08 Now how

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available

2005-02-10 Thread Malcolm Wallace
Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We are finally at the release candidate stage for GHC 6.4. Please test if you're able to, and give us feedback. In versions 5.00 = ghc = 6.2.2, the result of ghc -v 21 | head -2 was something like Glasgow Haskell Compiler, Version 6.2.2,

RE: GHC 6.4 release candidates available

2005-02-10 Thread Simon Marlow
On 10 February 2005 15:13, Malcolm Wallace wrote: Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We are finally at the release candidate stage for GHC 6.4. Please test if you're able to, and give us feedback. In versions 5.00 = ghc = 6.2.2, the result of ghc -v 21 | head -2 was

RE: GHC 6.4 release candidates available

2005-02-10 Thread Simon Marlow
On 10 February 2005 15:36, Malcolm Wallace wrote: Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, fixed. The right way to get the location of the package.conf file is to ask ghc-pkg, BTW. In fact, the right way is not to know the location of package.conf at all, but to use ghc-pkg to query its

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available

2005-02-10 Thread Malcolm Wallace
Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and how do you find out what $libdir refers to...? ghc --print-libdir Cool. Will fix hmake to use it. Regards, Malcolm ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org

Re: Bug#294481: ghci -lpthread fails

2005-02-10 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:13:36PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: Package: ghc6 Version: 6.2.2-2 /usr/lib/libpthread.so (comes from libc6-dev 2.3.2.ds1-20) is a GNU linker script, not a shared object. This breaks ghci. Known problem:

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available

2005-02-10 Thread Malcolm Wallace
$ ghc-pkg-6.4.20050209 --show-package=base --field=import_dirs [/usr/malcolm/local/lib/ghc-6.4.20050209/imports] yet $ ghc-pkg-6.4.20050209 --show-package=base-1.0 --field=import_dirs ghc-pkg: cannot find package base-1.0 $ ghc-pkg-6.4.20050209 --list-packages

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available

2005-02-10 Thread Simon David Foster
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 13:11 +, Simon Marlow wrote: Please test if you're able to, and give us feedback. I've noticed that running main of the attached code, using Proxy data-types to simulate context parameters (see previous email) still sends something into an infinite loop; is this my

Re: Bug#294481: ghci -lpthread fails

2005-02-10 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 16:58 +, Ian Lynagh wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:13:36PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: Package: ghc6 Version: 6.2.2-2 /usr/lib/libpthread.so (comes from libc6-dev 2.3.2.ds1-20) is a GNU linker script, not a shared object. This breaks ghci. Known

Re: Unregistering a package

2005-02-10 Thread Peter Simons
Simon Marlow writes: The general syntax of package ids is: pkgid ::= pkg ('-' version)? pkg ::= (alphanum|'-')+ version ::= (digit+) ('.' digit+)* ('-' alphanum+)* Thanks. I gave my package the version hsdns-0.0-2005-02-10 and that fixed the problem. Perhaps we should

Re: Bug#294481: ghci -lpthread fails

2005-02-10 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 07:00:47PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: Hi Ian, What is your particular problem? Running Darcs under ghci. This seems to work for me (at least in as much as ghci loads and FastPackedString.lengthPS (FastPackedString.packString Foo) says 3): rm -rf .libs rm

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available

2005-02-10 Thread John Meacham
When -fglasgow-exts is on, (#) no longer seems to be recognized. (I get a parse error.) however # works fine as an infix operator. John -- John Meacham - repetae.netjohn ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org