February 2007 - Cvs-nhc98

Status of nhc98 on 64bit platforms
by Sven Panne 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Just out of curiosity, I've just tried to build and install nhc98 from the darcs repo on an x86_64 Linux platform (vanilla "./configure && make", a rather recent GHC from darcs is in the PATH). This resulted in thousands of warnings and errors from GCC like: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size error: initializer element is not constant The resulting nhc98 is unusable, yielding dozens of errors from the linker for a "Hello, world!" program. So what is the current status on 64bit platforms? Are the problems fixable within a reasonable timeframe? If yes, some hints where to look for bugs would be appreciated, perhaps I can have a try... Cheers, S.

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syntax error in `sh start`
by Isaac Dupree 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/nhc98/ cd nhc98/ sh start At various times it outputs, [: 24: ==: unexpected operator sometimes followed by "Invalid repository: (whatever)" The line in the 'start' script if [ "$pkgname" == "$package" ] should be if [ "$pkgname" = "$package" ] (at least, changing it like that made it work for me, as it should, seeing `man [`.) P.S. It seems my darcs (1.0.8 (release)) sometimes hangs on partial gets and has to be kill -9'ed or equivalent -- I had to restart it for HaXML here (earlier I gave up on --partial for ghc repo)... I hope to be able to verify the "easy to install" claim made on http://www.haskell.org/nhc98/ ... given my architecture(powerpc) and my OS(ubuntu linux, currently), there were no binaries/automatic installation, and last time I tried compiling it from source (version 1.18 I think) I got some errors (real ones, rather than GCC's regularly crashing non-reproducibly on my machine)... When the build is over I guess I'll report on the results :) Isaac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF5L7BHgcxvIWYTTURAl8MAJ0etfMGGOGF34oYA09HrpLyxQHwKACfRtcy rCV5YfrzeYVTTUPjqahNSFg= =t/cq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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patch applied (nhc98): Add a configure-time option " --copts=" to give flags to the C compiler.
by Malcolm Wallace 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Wed Feb 28 08:19:00 PST 2007 Malcolm.Wallace(a)cs.york.ac.uk * Add a configure-time option "--copts=" to give flags to the C compiler. Pass the stored options to all C invocations at build-time. Maybe this will help when trying to tweak for benchmark speed. :-) M ./configure -11 +15 M ./src/compiler98/Makefile -1 +1 M ./src/hp2graph/Makefile -1 +1 M ./src/libraries/Makefile.common -1 +1 M ./src/runtime/Builtin/Makefile -1 +2 M ./src/runtime/Integer/Makefile -1 +2 M ./src/runtime/Kernel/Makefile -1 +1 M ./src/runtime/LiterateKernel/Makefile -2 +2 M ./src/runtime/Makefile -1 +1 M ./src/runtime/Mk/Makefile -1 +2

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patch applied (nhc98): use = instead of == in shell script tests
by Malcolm Wallace 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Wed Feb 28 03:41:03 PST 2007 Malcolm.Wallace(a)cs.york.ac.uk * use = instead of == in shell script tests M ./darcs-all -1 +1 M ./start -1 +1

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patch applied (nhc98): add -m32 flag to C compiler everywhere
by Malcolm Wallace 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

Mon Feb 26 04:42:02 PST 2007 Malcolm.Wallace(a)cs.york.ac.uk * add -m32 flag to C compiler everywhere M ./Makefile.inc +1 M ./configure -8 +8 M ./script/hsc2hs.inst -1 +1 M ./script/nhc98.inst -1 +1 M ./src/hp2graph/Makefile -1 +1 M ./src/libraries/Makefile.common -1 +1 M ./src/runtime/Builtin/Makefile -1 +1 M ./src/runtime/Integer/Makefile -1 +1 M ./src/runtime/Kernel/Makefile -1 +1 M ./src/runtime/Mk/Makefile -1 +1

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patch applied (nhc98): reinstate Binary (accidentally removed in previous commit)
by Malcolm Wallace 24 Feb '07

24 Feb '07

Sat Feb 24 02:40:53 PST 2007 Malcolm.Wallace(a)cs.york.ac.uk * reinstate Binary (accidentally removed in previous commit) M ./src/prelude/Makefile -2 +1

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patch applied (nhc98): May need parens when showing negative floating point / double numbers.
by Malcolm Wallace 23 Feb '07

23 Feb '07

Fri Feb 23 08:47:02 PST 2007 Malcolm.Wallace(a)cs.york.ac.uk * May need parens when showing negative floating point / double numbers. M ./src/prelude/PreludeText/Show_Double.hs -2 +2 M ./src/prelude/PreludeText/Show_Float.hs -2 +2

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patch applied (nhc98): Add NHC.Vector library to source distribution.
by Malcolm Wallace 23 Feb '07

23 Feb '07

Fri Feb 23 07:57:58 PST 2007 Malcolm.Wallace(a)cs.york.ac.uk * Add NHC.Vector library to source distribution. M ./Makefile -2 +4

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patch applied (nhc98): Expose the underlying IO-based Vector type.
by Malcolm Wallace 23 Feb '07

23 Feb '07

Fri Feb 23 07:37:18 PST 2007 Malcolm.Wallace(a)cs.york.ac.uk * Expose the underlying IO-based Vector type. Previously used for the implementation of ordinary Arrays, this is likely to be useful when implementing IOArrays as well. A ./include/NHC/Vector.hi M ./src/prelude/Makefile -2 +2 A ./src/prelude/Vector/ A ./src/prelude/Vector/Makefile A ./src/prelude/Vector/Makefile.inc A ./src/prelude/Vector/Vector.hs A ./src/prelude/Vector/_E.hs

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patch applied (nhc98): tweak for recent package build changes
by Malcolm Wallace 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

Thu Feb 22 03:17:31 PST 2007 Malcolm.Wallace(a)cs.york.ac.uk * tweak for recent package build changes M ./Makefile +2

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