Re: More detail on breakage with ghc-6.10

2008-10-23 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 12:59 +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > Am Samstag, 11. Oktober 2008 09:36 schrieb Duncan Coutts: > > All, > > > > We've been using the cabal-install build reporting stuff to get more > > detailed info on build failures with ghc-6.10 vs 6.8. cabal-install > > generates these bu

Re: Getting the location of data files from ghc-pkg?

2008-10-23 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 07:31 +0100, Robin Green wrote: > Is there any way of finding out where the Data-files specified in > a .cabal file have been installed to? I want to script finding some TeX > support files that are installed as part of the Functional MetaPost > library. Yes. See the Cabal us

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 RC 1

2008-10-23 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi Paul, On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 06:04:31PM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote: > > With all that, the first problem I hit was with utils/pwd/pwd. > ./configure builds it by calling ghc without any special flags, so the > binary can't find libgmp.so at runtime. I think you need to tell the dynamic linker w

Re: More detail on breakage with ghc-6.10

2008-10-23 Thread Don Stewart
g9ks157k: > Am Samstag, 11. Oktober 2008 09:36 schrieb Duncan Coutts: > > All, > > > > We've been using the cabal-install build reporting stuff to get more > > detailed info on build failures with ghc-6.10 vs 6.8. cabal-install > > generates these build-reports.log files and individual log files fo

Getting the location of data files from ghc-pkg?

2008-10-23 Thread Robin Green
Is there any way of finding out where the Data-files specified in a .cabal file have been installed to? I want to script finding some TeX support files that are installed as part of the Functional MetaPost library. -- Robin ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mail

could ghci debugger search for free variables better?

2008-10-23 Thread Peter Hercek
May be my approach to debugging with ghci is wrong but in about half of the time I find ghci (as a debugger) almost useless. The reason is the limited way it can resolve identifiers. I can examine the free variables in the selected expression and nothing else. Well, I *think* just sometimes I

Re: More detail on breakage with ghc-6.10

2008-10-23 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2008 12:59 schrieb Wolfgang Jeltsch: > Am Samstag, 11. Oktober 2008 09:36 schrieb Duncan Coutts: > > All, > > > > We've been using the cabal-install build reporting stuff to get more > > detailed info on build failures with ghc-6.10 vs 6.8. cabal-install > > generates the

Re: More detail on breakage with ghc-6.10

2008-10-23 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Samstag, 11. Oktober 2008 09:36 schrieb Duncan Coutts: > All, > > We've been using the cabal-install build reporting stuff to get more > detailed info on build failures with ghc-6.10 vs 6.8. cabal-install > generates these build-reports.log files and individual log files for > each build. build