You will have noticed the first appearance of nightly build-reports on the cvs-nhc98 mailing list:
Time for build with ghc-6.6.1
real 37m2.752s user 17m46.280s sys 2m53.572s
I have been running these builds for many years, and they are jolly useful for flagging up accidental breakage of libraries and so forth. The reason I have started to send the logs to a mailing list is two-fold: (1) Breakage of library packages has become rather frequent, and in the absence of any library developer running their own nightly builds of nhc98, the next best thing is to place my own report somewhere where they can look at it. (2) I'm hoping that a little extra visibility for the (largely working) current status of nhc98 might encourage some more developers to take nhc98 more seriously, and maybe even start contributing to it. It is good to have more than a single implementation of the Haskell language. Now I also realise that there is a lot of verbose junk in the build report. These are mostly harmless warnings from GHC, gcc, and nhc98 itself, but until you get used to the general pattern, they do tend to obscure the relevant information somewhat. Apologies, and maybe the public visibility of this junk will cause me to put some effort into finding ways to avoid generating the warnings in the first place. Regards, Malcolm