Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 beta

2008-09-22 Thread humasect
installPackage: internal error: stg_ap_ppp_ret (GHC version 6.8.3 for i386_apple_darwin) Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug make[2]: *** [build.stage.1] Abort trap make[1]: *** [build.stage.1] Error 2 make: *** [stage1] Error 1 Intel Mac. I will also r

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 beta

2008-09-22 Thread Wei Hu
Judah Jacobson gmail.com> writes: > Do you have the libedit-dev package installed? If not, the editline > backend may not have been built. You can check whether it was built > by running ghci from a command prompt and checking whether the arrow > keys work. > > -Judah > I forgot to mention t

Re: Some initial results with DPH

2008-09-22 Thread Roman Leshchinskiy
Hi Austin, first of all, thanks a lot for taking the time to report your results! On 23/09/2008, at 11:48, Austin Seipp wrote: * The vectorise pass boosts compilation times *a lot*. I don't think this is exactly unwarrented since it seems like a pretty complicated transformation, but while m

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 beta

2008-09-22 Thread Judah Jacobson
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Wei Hu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried it out in Emacs, but ghci always displays some sort of garbage > message. > For example, when I ask for the value of 0, I get: > 0^J0 > > Is it because ghci switched to libedit? I'm running Emacs-23 with haske-mode- > cvs

Some initial results with DPH

2008-09-22 Thread Austin Seipp
(I'm posting this here in the hope people like Manual and Roman will see it and take some interest.) I've built the GHC 6.10 beta (that is, The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.10.0.20080921) mainly so I could play around with DPH because it's too exciting to ignore any longe

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 beta

2008-09-22 Thread Wei Hu
I tried it out in Emacs, but ghci always displays some sort of garbage message. For example, when I ask for the value of 0, I get: 0^J0 Is it because ghci switched to libedit? I'm running Emacs-23 with haske-mode- cvs on Debian unstable. ___ Glasgow-h

Re: GHC 6.8.3's source is unusable?

2008-09-22 Thread Jason Dusek
Magicloud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see So 6.8.3 is not portable > So in my company-customed-linux box, ghc is nothing to me? > Any way I can use it? What kind of machine do you have? -- _jsn ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 beta

2008-09-22 Thread Christian Maeder
Matthias Kilian wrote: >> 2. >> /bin/sh: test: argument expected >> gmake[1]: *** [binary-dist] Error 1 >> >> -e does not work for test under "sh", so I changed it to "-r": >> ... if [ -r $$FILE ]; then ... > > I doubt `-e' doesn't work on Solaris, because `-e' is POSIX. Does > this "argument expe

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 beta

2008-09-22 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 03:32:40PM +0200, Christian Maeder wrote: > I've tried to build a binary dist on x86 under Solaris and did not succeed. > > "make binary-dist" failed with > > 1. > for FILE in ; do if [ -e $FILE ]; then echo > ghc-6.10.0.20080921/gmp/$FILE >> > /export/local1/home/maed

Re: Debian stable not supported?

2008-09-22 Thread Ferenc Wagner
"Yitzchak Gale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roman Cheplyaka wrote: > >> I think I'll face with the similar problem in the nearest future, except >> I have far more old system. So I'll be very greatful if you provide the >> instructions and record your experience. > > (Looks like I may need to do

Re: Debian stable not supported?

2008-09-22 Thread Yitzchak Gale
Hi Roman, Roman Cheplyaka wrote: > I think I'll face with the similar problem in the nearest future, except > I have far more old system. So I'll be very greatful if you provide the > instructions and record your experience. OK, here's a brief summary of what I did. I hope I'm not forgetting anyt

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 beta

2008-09-22 Thread Christian Maeder
Ian Lynagh wrote: > Right now we have the source bundles: > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.10.0.20080921-src.tar.bz2 > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.10.0.20080921-src-extralibs.tar.bz2 I've tried to build a binary dist on x86 under Solaris and did not succ

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: protocol-buffers-0.2.9 for Haskell is ready

2008-09-22 Thread Yitzchak Gale
Chris Kuklewicz wrote: > Who can suggest a way to cast from Float to Word32 and Double to Word64 > using ghc? The actual task is that I need to write out the Float as a > little endian sequence of four bytes and also be able to read it back in. > The writing and reading are done in Put and Get mo

Re: ANNOUNCE: protocol-buffers-0.2.9 for Haskell is ready

2008-09-22 Thread Chris Kuklewicz
I am cross-posting this message to several lists. I had learned the trick before the documentation was updated. It seems I have used a very unreliable trick. And the "use castToSTUArray" suggested alternative is a really poor one since I am not using arrays at all. Who can suggest a way to

Re: Debian stable not supported?

2008-09-22 Thread Roman Cheplyaka
* Yitzchak Gale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-22 09:52:57+0300] > Before I delete that chroot build environment - could it > be useful for making GHC 6.8.3 available to others? If someone > points me in the right direction, perhaps I could create a binary > tarball and/or backport deb. Or at least r