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Christian Lavoie commented on THRIFT-743:
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Anthony -- I'm working on THRIFT-905 too, but my knowledge of autotools is...
biased towards my mental stability, not towards deep expertise ;)
However, my v4 of THRIFT-743 is independent from any version of THRIFT-905, and
should apply cleanly without.
To the best of my knowledge all versions of THRIFT-743 do NOT break previous
versions of GHC; they merely rename a few identifiers away ( rec -> record,
proc -> proc_ } because in 6.12 they became keywords under certain
circumstances. This shouldn't have any negative effects on old ghc (no more
than renaming a variable 'class' to 'klass' should break C compilers, but make
it work in C++).
As far as which version of GHC to target, I'm aiming to have as few
dependencies on modern GHC. Certainly my patches so far will relax the
requirements on modern GHC; but I'm less sure about the required extra cabal
packages. I spent a fair chunk of time yesterday trying to get an old ghc
install working, but it's increasingly difficult to find a setup that satisfy
all of the following criteria:
1) Compiles or runs from golden binaries
2) Has GHC <= 6.10
3) Has autotools >= 2.65
Typically, #2 and #3 are mutually exclusive (freebsd8.1, for example, only has
autotools2.62; debian unstable won't compile ghc 6.10 with its packaged 6.12;
debian stable has ghc 6.6 but downright ancient autotools; ...).
I would aim for this to compile cleanly on the last 2-3 haskell platform
releases; it's fast becoming the haskell community's golden standard --
macports and fink haven't treated me well on mac on that regard, and are
increasingly irrelevant for Haskell development, as far as I can tell.
> compile error with GHC 6.12.1
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>
> Key: THRIFT-743
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-743
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Haskell - Compiler, Haskell - Library
> Environment: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.4, x86_64
> Reporter: Martin Grabmueller
> Assignee: Anthony Molinaro
> Attachments: ghc-6.12.1-compile-problem-patch-v2.txt,
> ghc-6.12.1-compile-problem-patch.txt, v3-thrift-compile-errors.patch,
> v4-rename-proc-rec-keywords.patch
>
>
> The Haskell bindings do not compile with GHC 6.12.1, because rec seems to be
> a reserved word in that version.
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