Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.12.1 Release Candidate 1

2009-10-13 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:31:41PM +0200, Ben Franksen wrote: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/docs/html/users_guide/release-6-12-1.html In section 1.5.2. Warnings there is a duplication: Thanks for the report; fixed. Thanks Ian ___

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.12.1 Release Candidate 1

2009-10-13 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 05:49:17PM -0700, Alexander Dunlap wrote: When compiling, I get lots of No such file or directory errors. The compilation process continues, but should I be concerned about this? It's normal to get this for various *.mk files, *.depend* files, etc. Thanks Ian

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.12.1 Release Candidate 1

2009-10-13 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 04:04:23PM -0400, Brent Yorgey wrote: What's the canonical way to install a version of ghc but not have it be the default? i.e., I'd like to try testing this release candidate but I want to have to call it explicitly; I want 'ghc', 'ghc-pkg' etc. to still be aliases to

Re: replace GHC 6.6 with 6.10.4 in VisualHaskell

2009-10-13 Thread Simon Marlow
On 12/10/2009 18:16, Luca Ciciriello wrote: Is there a way to use VisualHaskel with GHC 6.10.4? Unfortunately no, Visual Haskell is bitrotted and unmaintained. Cheers, Simon ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list

Attempts to install libraries with GHC 6.12.1rc1

2009-10-13 Thread Neil Brown
Hi, I downloaded the new GHC release candidate. It compiled and installed first time, which was great. However, this is not true of all the libraries. I'm posting here in the hope that it helps other users trying to get it to work, or library maintainers to see what breaks in the new

Re: Attempts to install libraries with GHC 6.12.1rc1

2009-10-13 Thread Simon Marlow
On 13/10/2009 11:17, Neil Brown wrote: Hi, I downloaded the new GHC release candidate. It compiled and installed first time, which was great. However, this is not true of all the libraries. I'm posting here in the hope that it helps other users trying to get it to work, or library maintainers

Re: Attempts to install libraries with GHC 6.12.1rc1

2009-10-13 Thread Neil Brown
Simon Marlow wrote: network is one of those packages that has a configure script, but the configure script is generated by autoconf from configure.ac, so it is not stored in the darcs repository. When you get the network package from darcs, you need to $ autoreconf $ runhaskell Setup

Re: Attempts to install libraries with GHC 6.12.1rc1

2009-10-13 Thread Simon Marlow
On 13/10/2009 12:04, Neil Brown wrote: My next failing package install attempt was uvector, which fails with messages like those I got with the unix package: Data/Array/Vector/Prim/BUArr.hs:851:26: `haFD' is not a (visible) field of constructor `Handle__'

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.12.1 Release Candidate 1

2009-10-13 Thread Nils Anders Danielsson
On 2009-10-13 08:58, Ian Lynagh wrote: If you're installing one of the Linux bindists then you can use ./configure --prefix=/your/path and again you will have to set up the aliases yourself. And if installing from source you can likewise use ./configure --prefix=/your/path and set up

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.12.1 Release Candidate 1

2009-10-13 Thread Brent Yorgey
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:17:16PM +0100, Nils Anders Danielsson wrote: On 2009-10-13 08:58, Ian Lynagh wrote: If you're installing one of the Linux bindists then you can use ./configure --prefix=/your/path and again you will have to set up the aliases yourself. And if installing from

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.12.1 Release Candidate 1

2009-10-13 Thread Johan Tibell
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Philip Weaver philip.wea...@gmail.com wrote: Then, when I tried to build the network package manually, I got this: Building network-2.2.1.4... [1 of 5] Compiling Network.URI  ( Network/URI.hs, dist/build/Network/URI.o ) [2 of 5] Compiling

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.12.1 Release Candidate 1

2009-10-13 Thread Antoine Latter
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li wrote: Hi all, We are pleased to (finally!) announce the first release candidate for GHC 6.12.1:    http://darcs.haskell.org/~ghc/dist/6.12.1rc1/ As well as the source tarball:    ghc-6.12.0.20091010-src.tar.bz2 there are