RE: [Haskell-cafe] Packages and modules

2006-06-26 Thread S. Alexander Jacobson
Simon, We covered this extensively in the Cabal vs Haskell thread starting here: http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/libraries/2005-April/003607.html You concluded it by saying on April 22: And this observation points towards a simpler solution: rather than invisibly pre-pend the package na

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Packages and modules

2006-06-26 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 04:20:16PM +0100, Brian Hulley wrote: > > I don't think this solves the whole problem. Suppose M1 needs to use A.B.C > from P1 *and* A.B.C from P2 For a simple example of a case where this might arise, suppose M1 is the migration module for data (stored in a database, rec

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Packages and modules

2006-06-26 Thread Brian Hulley
Brian Hulley wrote: import Gtk/Widget.Button -- instead of grafting In all cases I think it would be an absolute disaster to allow modules to be imported without an explicit package id because this would defeat the whole purpose of having a simple per-package namespace for modules and wouldn't

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Packages and modules

2006-06-26 Thread Brian Hulley
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: Simon and I have been thinking about fixing this, and we think we might actually do so for GHC 6.6. Your message provoked us to write up the design. It's here http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GhcPackages Feedback welcome It's worth reading the old threads; for

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Packages and modules

2006-06-26 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Simon and I have been thinking about fixing this, and we think we might actually do so for GHC 6.6. Your message provoked us to write up the design. It's here http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GhcPackages Feedback welcome It's worth reading the old threads; for example ht

RE: Illegal instruction in GHC 6.5 generated code.

2006-06-26 Thread Simon Marlow
On 23 June 2006 17:43, Caio Marcelo wrote: > On 6/23/06, Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What did I do wrong? > > Did you changed the Judy/Map.hs code to not use Dummy (see below)? The > code I commited is the version with the workaround. > > Anyway, I'm going to darcs pull and recomp

Re: Compiling with -threaded under Solaris 10

2006-06-26 Thread Christian Maeder
Christian Maeder schrieb: > Your example works for me. It seemed to work for me even for ghc-6.4.1 (on a sparc)! -bash-3.00$ ./try this is a test -bash-3.00$ ./try try: waitForProcess: interrupted (Interrupted system call) Several times trying using ghc-6.4.2 also revealed errors: -bash-3.00$ .

Re: Compiling with -threaded under Solaris 10

2006-06-26 Thread Christian Maeder
Florian Lorenzen schrieb: > I'm trying to run the following program on Solaris 10 with GHC 6.4.1 > (6.4.2 does not really work under Solaris 10 right now). What did you try out with ghc-6.4.2? ghc-6.4.2 does not work _because_ of -threaded. And this inability certainly applies to ghc-6.4.1 as well