Re: 7.4.1-cand for docon

2011-12-30 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello Serge, On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 07:55:05PM +0400, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: > ... > Has the status of the module Random changed in ghc-7.4.1 ? Between ghc-7.0.4 and ghc-7.4.1, we find http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.2.1/html/users_guide/release-7-2-1.html that says: 1.5.12.22. ran

Re: build-depends

2011-12-22 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello Serge, On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:03:45PM +0400, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: > ... > This leads to > > DExport.hs:28:8: > Could not find module `System.Random' System.Random can be found in http://hackage.haskell.org/package/random. Best regards Thorkil > ... _

Re: Using CPP in Cmm

2011-06-09 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 03:44:43PM +0200, Johan Tibell wrote: > ... > I initially > tried to use the CPP ## string concatenation operator to create unique > names (tedious, but works) but GHC runs CPP in traditional mode so > that doesn't work. One -traditional way that I have used to conc

Re: link problem under macosx

2010-11-02 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 01:03:04PM +0100, Christian Maeder wrote: > ... > Are there better workarounds? I am not sure about that, I assume that you have looked at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4068? > ... Best regards Thorkil ___

Re: integer-simple by default

2010-02-23 Thread naur
Hello, Yet another data point would be my current use of Haskell in various integer factorization activities where I would consider the performance, even for relatively large integers (say, 100-1000 decimal digits) very important. However, I wouldn't complain if some simple and manageable imple

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.2 Release Candidate 1

2009-03-21 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Thursday 19 March 2009 18:03, Ian Lynagh wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:35:01PM +0100, Thorkil Naur wrote: > ... > > 1. An important property of such installers is that you are told, right from > > the start, that all the information you are present

Re: Under OS X 10.5.6: GHC 6.10.1 Release Candidate 1

2009-03-18 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello Thomas, On Wednesday 18 March 2009 15:03, Thomas Schilling wrote: > There should be a file called testlog somewhere, either at the > toplevel or within the tests directory. Could you search for > "apirecomp001" and send me the test output from running that test. I > can't reproduce t

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.2 Release Candidate 1

2009-03-18 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Sunday 15 March 2009 16:51, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 6.10.2: > ... > Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them > before the release! > ... I have tried the Intel Mac installer and the source packag

Re: Can't compile GHC 6.8.2

2008-11-24 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Monday 24 November 2008 23:48, Barney Stratford wrote: > > The heading seems to be: Your build is missing it's required GMP (GNU > > Multiple Precision) library > No, I have GMP installed, and it's correctly compiling against it. The > issue isn't that these symbols are missing altogethe

Re: Can't compile GHC 6.8.2

2008-11-24 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Monday 24 November 2008 23:15, Barney Stratford wrote: > There's good news and bad news. The good news is that the compilation of > my shiny almost-new GHC is complete. The bad news is, it won't link. > It's grumbling about > > ld: > /System/Fink/src/fink.build/ghc-6.8.2-1/ghc-6.8.2/rt

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.10.1 - MacOS installer

2008-11-21 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello Greg, On Friday 21 November 2008 15:56, Gregory Wright wrote: > ... > ppc/ > Leopard still > fails, but I now have an account on a machine that I can use to test > and debug. And if you need such an access (now or in the future), please just say the word and you can get access to my PP

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 beta

2008-09-28 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Sunday 28 September 2008 19:27, humasect wrote: > Ah, indeed it does! Then, more about GHC API: > "Shell: Shell: missing -B option" > > I can't find any information of what this -B is, it is not in GHC sources or > anything helpful from google. The -B is used from a ghc shell script to

Re: Making GHC work on BSD

2008-09-08 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Monday 08 September 2008 14:22, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > Dear BDS hackers > > We'd like GHC to be buildable on BSD, but at the moment it isn't. We support GHC on Linux, Windows, Mac, but we really need help with BSD. I would like to do something about this. I have (a number of) x8

Re: gmp

2008-01-17 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Thursday 17 January 2008 17:57, Christian Maeder wrote: > I understand that gmp is needed for the certain libraries like the > Prelude with Double and Integer. > > But I do not understand why gmp is so deeply buried in the rts. > Are the basic types Int and Pointer not enough to write a

Re: bindist for Intel MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger) with static libs

2008-01-17 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Thursday 17 January 2008 05:24, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: > Thorkil Naur: > > Hello, > > > > On Tuesday 08 January 2008 15:07, Christian Maeder wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've succeeded in building a binary distribution

Re: Integrating editline with ghc

2008-01-16 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Wednesday 16 January 2008 22:05, Judah Jacobson wrote: > Hi all, > > I have managed to build ghc using the initial release of the editline package: > > Hackage link: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/editline-0.1 > Haddock: http://code.haskell.org/editline/di

Re: bindist for Intel MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger) with static libs

2008-01-10 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Tuesday 08 January 2008 15:07, Christian Maeder wrote: > Hi, > > I've succeeded in building a binary distribution that uses static > libraries for gmp and readline. libreadline.a, libncurses.a and libgmp.a > with corresponding header files are included. (For license issues ask > someone

Re: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/mac_frameworks/GNUreadline-framework.zip

2008-01-05 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Friday 04 January 2008 12:03, Christian Maeder wrote: > ... Thanks a lot for this response. > I'm not happy about this framework hick-hack either. I am glad we agree about that. > I've only pushed > it, because we needed a readline solution on macs. I understand that there are prob

Re: Building GHC 6.6.1 on Leopard/PPC

2007-12-20 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Thursday 20 December 2007 20:15, Jerry Charumilind wrote: > ... > Besides getting a working compiler, my other goal is to get contribute > a working build process on Leopard back to MacPorts, since they > continue to have no solution right now (http://trac.macports.org/projects/macp

Re: Building GHC 6.6.1 on Leopard/PPC

2007-12-20 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, First of all: Welcome to the club. I hope you will find it enjoyable. And then to your questions: I have never tried to bootstrap GHC from C, so I am not really able to help with your specific problem. However, if you just want a running GHC, the binary distributions should provide an e

Is "-O currently also implies -fvia-C." still true?

2007-07-27 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, The GHC User's Guide, Versio 6.6.1 (http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/options-optimise.html) says: -O currently also implies -fvia-C. I seem to remember some communication a while back that seemed to imply that this is no longer the case. So my question is: Is t

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6.1 Release Candidate

2007-04-11 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Tuesday 10 April 2007 16:41, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.6.1. > ... A few comments to the source bundles http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.6.20070410-src.tar.bz2 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-

Re: Failed to load interface for `Prelude'

2007-04-07 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, I'm afraid that this is outside my direct experience. However, looking at http://lists.apple.com/archives/xcode-users/2006/Oct/msg00578.html that google was kind enough to find for me, some assembler code generation error seems indicated. I can see that you use -O2, but not whether -f

Re: Failed to load interface for `Prelude'

2007-04-05 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, A long shot, but perhaps worth looking into: The reaction that you report here seems similar to the one reported in trac #1195 Build error on MacOSX (Intel) 10.4.8 for HEAD from 2007-03-05 when compiling with ghc-6.6: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1195 That ticket report

Re: Parsing GHC Core

2007-03-08 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, The GHC repository ghc/utils/ext-core contains a parser and an (incomplete?) interpreter, apparently for some earlier version of GHC core. Best regards Thorkil On Thursday 08 March 2007 15:58, Neil Mitchell wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to parse GHC Core to an abstract syntax tree, as th

Re: ghc 6.6 for mac os x (intel)

2007-02-06 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Tuesday 06 February 2007 16:15, Ariel Apostoli wrote: > but when I try installing ghc from that page it seems to install fine > but when I invoke /usr/local/bin/ghc i get: > > dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libreadline.5.1.dylib > Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.6/ghc

Re: Replacement for GMP: Update

2007-01-24 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Wednesday 24 January 2007 16:30, Peter Tanski wrote: > ... > Thorkil Naur and others have suggested writing the whole > thing as small assembler operations and piece them together in > Haskell; I have been looking into that as well but it seems to entail > inlinin

Re: HEAD ghci crash on ppc OS X

2007-01-15 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, I get a similar reaction starting ghci built from a ghc-HEAD pulled 2007-Jan-12 on a PPC Mac OS X 10.4. Best regards Thorkil On Tuesday 16 January 2007 03:03, David Kirkman wrote: > > I just built ghc from HEAD on OS X (ppc), and get the following error > when starting ghci: > > ---star

Re: Building GHC on Mac OS 10.2.1

2006-12-30 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, Sometimes, ghc complains about '#' for me when the C preprocessor has not been run and there is an unexpected #include or #define in the way. Also, as I read ifeq "$(ghc_ge_603)" "YES" # These modules are provided in GHC 6.3+ EXCLUDED_SRCS += \ System/Directory/Internals.hs ... e

Re: Replacement for GMP: Update

2006-12-29 Thread Thorkil Naur
seems difficult to embrace. > This is the problem I face: GHC unfortunately does not use Integer as > a mathematical operation but as a primitive type, complete with > bitwise operations. I do not understand what problem you are referring to here. > ... > On Aug 24, 2006

Re: Building GHC on Mac OS 10.2.1

2006-12-29 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, Not much help, I'm afraid, but for what it's worth: I have built GHC-6.6 and some HEAD-ish version successfully on a PowerBook G4 with Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther?) and also after upgrading to 10.4 Tiger. I have never tried with 10.2. To assist in your difficult decisions, here are some detai

Re: Network.Socket endian problem?

2006-12-13 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, It appears that you already got an answer to your question that I hope you can use. So just for completeness: On my PPC Mac OS X 10.4, both ghc-6.4.1 and ghc-6.6 produce results similar to the one you report for OSX. And on my Suse Linux, both ghc-6.4.1 and ghc-6.6 produce results ("wron

Re: Network.Socket endian problem?

2006-12-13 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, I am not an expert on sockets, but I have both a Linux installation and a PPC Mac OS X 10.4 with both ghc-6.4.1 and ghc-6.6. So if you allow me some additional details (such as complete program texts), perhaps I can perform some useful experiments under your conductance. Best regards Th

Re: ghc-testsuite-6.6 on Macs

2006-11-14 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Tuesday 14 November 2006 11:34, Simon Marlow wrote: > Thorkil Naur wrote: > > ... I have > > produced an experimental darcs patch that solves some problems, while > > possibly introducing others: > > http://thorkilnaur.dk/~tn/GHC/testsuite/patch/barto

Re: ghc-testsuite-6.6 on Macs

2006-11-13 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, This is an attempt to address (a very small part of) this: On my PowerPC Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther, I think, not Tiger as I have written elsewhere), I have built the ghc-6.6 branch (of about 2006-Nov-07 19.00 UTC) using GHC-6.4.1.pkg.zip (The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, ver

Re: GHC on MacOS

2006-10-02 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, Let me make that offer, then, that I would like to help investigate and fix GHC on MacOS. The obstacles that I have mentioned earlier are ones that I would eventually have removed in any case, so don't worry, I will not be wasting any time. Regards Thorkil On Monday 02 October 2006 09:

Re: GHC on MacOS

2006-09-30 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, Nobody seems to have reacted on this. I own a Mac that I don't use particularly much. It seems within reach that I could use it to assist you with both of your questions. As a side effect of having great fun myself, of course. There are several obstacles that need to be removed, however

Re: Replacement for GMP: Update

2006-08-24 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello Peter, Sorry for the late reply. From your latest communication which seems to be Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:12:05 -0400 From: Peter Tanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OpenSSL License (was Replacement for GMP: Update) To: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am a bit uncertain where the

Re: Replacement for GMP: Update

2006-08-10 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Thursday 10 August 2006 07:31, Peter Tanski wrote: ... > Summary: I finally settled on modifying OpenSSL, since that would be ... Being a heavy user of Haskell Integers, I have followed this development with great interest. Although your decision has its drawbacks, it could very well

Re: Message "GHC/PrimopWrappers.hs:133:29: Not in scope: `GHC.Prim.quotInteger2Exp#'" building GHC with additional primitive operation

2006-03-31 Thread Thorkil Naur
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 01:35, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > primitives work with just the same internal structures. i thinl that > only real advantage of adding primop instead of adding FFI import is > that PrimOps.cmm contains already implemented wrappers for calling GMP > functions while for FFI y

Re: Message "GHC/PrimopWrappers.hs:133:29: Not in scope: `GHC.Prim.quotInteger2Exp#'" building GHC with additional primitive operation

2006-03-28 Thread Thorkil Naur
On Monday 27 March 2006 16:33, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > Thorkil, i can't understand why you can't just use FFI to import > functions you required? why you need to patch the PrimOps list? Hello, As I wrote earlier, using FFI is also a candidate for getting access to additional GMP functions. Howev

Re: Message "GHC/PrimopWrappers.hs:133:29: Not in scope: `GHC.Prim.quotInteger2Exp#'" building GHC with additional primitive operation

2006-03-28 Thread Thorkil Naur
On Monday 27 March 2006 12:57, Simon Marlow wrote: > quotInteger2Expzh_fast is the function you are adding to PrimOps.cmm to > implement the primop. The patch in your original message indicated that > you had added a stub for this function, so it should link ok. I don't > understand what has g

Re: Message "GHC/PrimopWrappers.hs:133:29: Not in scope: `GHC.Prim.quotInteger2Exp#'" building GHC with additional primitive operation

2006-03-26 Thread Thorkil Naur
copied to make GHC.Prim.hi but I have not been able to find anything that relates to this. So I am again at a loss, aksing for help to proceed. Thanks a lot in advance. Best regards Thorkil Naur ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users

Message "GHC/PrimopWrappers.hs:133:29: Not in scope: `GHC.Prim.quotInteger2Exp#'" building GHC with additional primitive operation

2006-03-22 Thread Thorkil Naur
kell/work> ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tn/tmp/Haskell/work> Best regards Thorkil Naur ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users