On GHC HEAD, Fefora Cote 5 and SELinux

2006-05-02 Thread wld
As described in trac ticket 738, GHC HEAD does not work on Fedora Core 5 with selinux in enforcing mode. Selinux is the additional level of protection in Linux kernel that works above usual Unix permissions. Turning selinux to permissive mode (as suggested in the workaround to make GHC work) actua

Re: Building ghc-6.4 on Solaris x86

2006-05-02 Thread Georg Sauthoff
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:16:27PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: Hi, [..] > There appears to be a problem with the threaded RTS on some platforms: > Solaris and possibly FreeBSD. I haven't been able to track down the > problem yet - if someone could build GHC with -threaded -debug and send > m

RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC vesrion 6.4.2

2006-05-02 Thread Simon Marlow
On 01 May 2006 10:08, Sven Panne wrote: > Am Sonntag, 30. April 2006 10:15 schrieb Bulat Ziganshin: >> may be it's not too late to just rerelease GHC? especially if hooks >> interface in current cabal version don't planned to change in >> foreseeable future. having common cabal interface for 6.4.2

Re: import prefers module in package over local module

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Marte
Simon, I checked the version of ghc I use: It's 6.4.1. Michael Simon Marlow wrote: Michael Marte wrote: I am migrating a project from ghc 6.2 to ghc 6.4. This project has a module called Pretty and that's where my problems start. When importing Pretty, ghc does not consider my local defini

Re: import prefers module in package over local module

2006-05-02 Thread Simon Marlow
Michael Marte wrote: I am migrating a project from ghc 6.2 to ghc 6.4. This project has a module called Pretty and that's where my problems start. When importing Pretty, ghc does not consider my local definition but the Pretty module from the standard library (which is an alias for Text.Prett

Re: Problems building HEAD

2006-05-02 Thread Simon Marlow
Reilly Hayes wrote: 1) Issues with bookstrap.mk bootstrap.mk in head contains the following lines TOP_SAVED := $(TOP) TOP:=$(TOP)/ghc include $(TOP)/mk/version.mk include $(TOP)/mk/paths.mk # Reset TOP TOP:=$(TOP_SAVED) Yes, none of that is required any more. Thanks. 2) Building the .hc

Re: Building ghc-6.4 on Solaris x86

2006-05-02 Thread Simon Marlow
Georg Sauthoff wrote: [..] If I go into ghc/rts and manually execute the last command, it terminates sometimes. I.e. if I execute it manually 20 times, 1 time it hangs and 19 times it terminates ... [..] to give more information: In the log from a truss[1] after hanging this block gets rep

import prefers module in package over local module

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Marte
Hello *, I am migrating a project from ghc 6.2 to ghc 6.4. This project has a module called Pretty and that's where my problems start. When importing Pretty, ghc does not consider my local definition but the Pretty module from the standard library (which is an alias for Text.PrettyPrint.Hughe