ANN: ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts

2008-03-04 Thread Gregory Wright
After what many would consider an unconscionable delay, I am happy to announce that ghc 6.8.2 is available from MacPorts. The ghc 6.8.2 port is available for Tiger/ppc, Tiger/intel and Leopard/ intel. Users with Leopard/ppc are out of luck until for now, for reason discussed earlier on th

Re: ANN: ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts

2008-03-05 Thread Jinwoo Lee
Thank you! But "ghc" has disappeared from MacPorts SW list. Only "ghc-devel" can be seen. Please look into it. jinwoo On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Gregory Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After what many would consider an unconscionable delay, I am happy to > announce > that ghc 6.8.2

Re: ANN: ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts

2008-03-05 Thread Gregory Wright
On Mar 5, 2008, at 4:21 AM, Jinwoo Lee wrote: Thank you! But "ghc" has disappeared from MacPorts SW list. Only "ghc-devel" can be seen. Please look into it. ghc vanished from the distribution server for a few hours yesterday because of a unanticipated corner case in the indexing script. (

Re: ANN: ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts

2008-03-05 Thread Wilson MacGyver
Gregory Wright wrote: After what many would consider an unconscionable delay, I am happy to announce that ghc 6.8.2 is available from MacPorts. thank you for all the hard work, port installing now as we speak. Good job. Mac ___ Glasgow-haskell-us

Re: ANN: ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts

2008-03-06 Thread Wouter Swierstra
Hi Greg, Thanks again for maintaining ghc in macports! I tried installing ghc through macports. Unfortunately, the build failed with the following error message below. I'd be happy to send you a complete log, if you think it would help. Many thanks, Wouter main/ParsePkgConf.hs:296:35:

Re: ANN: ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts

2008-03-07 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi Wouter, On Mar 6, 2008, at 12:57 PM, Wouter Swierstra wrote: Hi Greg, Thanks again for maintaining ghc in macports! I tried installing ghc through macports. Unfortunately, the build failed with the following error message below. I'd be happy to send you a complete log, if you think it

Re: ANN: ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts

2008-03-13 Thread Christian Maeder
Gregory Wright wrote: > Leopard/ppc are out of luck until for now, for reason discussed earlier > on this list. I was able to build ghc 6.8.2 on Leopard/ppc using the patch from http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1958 (also below) Could you try if it works for you, too? Cheers Christian

Re: ANN: ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts

2008-03-13 Thread Christian Maeder
Christian Maeder wrote: > Gregory Wright wrote: >> Leopard/ppc are out of luck until for now, for reason discussed earlier >> on this list. > > I was able to build ghc 6.8.2 on Leopard/ppc using the patch from > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1958 > (also below) > > Could you try i

Re: ANN: ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts

2008-03-13 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi Christian, On Mar 13, 2008, at 7:10 AM, Christian Maeder wrote: I was able to build ghc 6.8.2 on Leopard/ppc using the patch from http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1958 (also below) Could you try if it works for you, too? I forgot to mention, that I had to build a bootstrapping

Re: ANN: ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts

2008-03-14 Thread Christian Maeder
Hi Greg, I can't test it myself because I don't have root access to our machines. Maybe someone else can? (Meanwhile I'll try to make a binary-dist that includes the extra-libs.) Cheers Christian Gregory Wright wrote: > > Hi Christian, > > I built a new bootstrapping compiler on Tiger/ppc, in

Re: ANN: ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts

2008-04-24 Thread Bjorn Bringert
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Wouter Swierstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Thanks again for maintaining ghc in macports! > > I tried installing ghc through macports. Unfortunately, the build failed > with the following error message below. I'd be happy to send you a complete > log

Re: ANN: ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts

2008-04-24 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi Björn, On Apr 24, 2008, at 6:41 AM, Bjorn Bringert wrote: On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Wouter Swierstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Greg, Thanks again for maintaining ghc in macports! I tried installing ghc through macports. Unfortunately, the build failed with the following erro

Re: ANN: ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts

2008-04-24 Thread Bjorn Bringert
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Gregory Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 24, 2008, at 6:41 AM, Bjorn Bringert wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Wouter Swierstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > Thanks again for maintaining ghc in macports! > > > > > >

Re: ANN: ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts

2008-04-26 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:25:26AM -0400, Gregory Wright wrote: > > I'll see if I can come up with a patch to the build system that avoids > this. I think that this was actually done a while ago: [pass -no-user-package-conf to ghc-inplace Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>**20080104162840] { T

Re: ANN: ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts

2008-05-01 Thread Gregory Wright
On Apr 26, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Ian Lynagh wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:25:26AM -0400, Gregory Wright wrote: I'll see if I can come up with a patch to the build system that avoids this. I think that this was actually done a while ago: [pass -no-user-package-conf to ghc-inplace Simon M

Re: ANN: ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts

2008-05-01 Thread Wouter Swierstra
On 1 May 2008, at 13:59, Gregory Wright wrote: I've patched MacPorts' ghc-6.8.2 to include the -no-user-package-conf flag. Wouter, could you check if this fixes the problem you had? I tried a "port selfupdate" and "port clean --all ghc", followed by a "port install ghc". I ran into the err

Re: ANN: ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts

2008-05-02 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi Wouter, On May 1, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Wouter Swierstra wrote: On 1 May 2008, at 13:59, Gregory Wright wrote: I've patched MacPorts' ghc-6.8.2 to include the -no-user-package-conf flag. Wouter, could you check if this fixes the problem you had? I tried a "port selfupdate" and "port cle

Re: ANN: ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts

2008-05-06 Thread Wouter Swierstra
Hi Greg, On 2 May 2008, at 13:47, Gregory Wright wrote: Hmmm. If I understand correctly, doing a "port selfupdate" and "port clean --all" gave a locking bug, but after you deleted .ghc, everything worked properly? Yes. I wouldn't worry about it too much. Somehow the problem only pops up