Re: can't compile ghc from cvs

2000-06-27 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Sven Panne wrote: > Sven Panne wrote: > > [...] This has been fixed for 4.07, but as people are supposed to be > > able to build 4.07 with pre-4.07 compilers, I'll change those > > identifiers in the driver sources with something more defensive. > > I've just realised that t

Re: can't compile ghc from cvs

2000-06-27 Thread Jens-Ulrik Petersen
Sven Panne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sven Panne wrote: > > [...] This has been fixed for 4.07, but as people are supposed to be > > able to build 4.07 with pre-4.07 compilers, I'll change those > > identifiers in the driver sources with something more defensive. > > I've ju

RE: can't compile ghc from cvs

2000-06-26 Thread Julian Seward (Intl Vendor)
I think it's a legitimate problem with the new driver. I hit it myself on Friday. I think that the _Capitalised entity naming scheme is being misinterpreted by pre-4.07 ghc's. ... and I see that Sven has already fixed it. Cool. J

Re: can't compile ghc from cvs

2000-06-25 Thread Sven Panne
Sven Panne wrote: > [...] This has been fixed for 4.07, but as people are supposed to be > able to build 4.07 with pre-4.07 compilers, I'll change those > identifiers in the driver sources with something more defensive. I've just realised that this is not the true story. You *can* build 4.07 with

Re: can't compile ghc from cvs

2000-06-25 Thread Sven Panne
Jens-Ulrik Petersen wrote: > For some time I haven't been able to compile ghc from cvs. [...] > What's going wrong? [...] > Config.hs:2: Data constructor not in scope: `_ProjectName' [...] Until recently (including 4.06) GHC confused variables having names starting with an underscore followed by

can't compile ghc from cvs

2000-06-25 Thread Jens-Ulrik Petersen
For some time I haven't been able to compile ghc from cvs. Presumably it is due to some local artefact in my cvs copy, but as a ghc learner I don't really know where to start looking. On my Linux Redhat 6.2 box, I have ghc-current, and am compiling with: gcc version egcs-2.91.66 1999031