May 2010 - FreeBSD-haskell

GHC 6.12.1 is Officially Available for FreeBSD
by Gabor PALI 30 May '10

30 May '10

Hello there, For your information, binary distributions tarballs for GHC 6.12.1 are now officially available [1]. Supported platforms are FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/amd64 with 7.X and 8.X. It might be useful if you want to build Haskell Platform 2010.1.0.0 [2] on your machine, since it precisely requires this version of the compiler. Feel free to report if you experience any problems. Cheers, :g [1] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_12_1.html#freebsd [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/linux.html

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Periodic Update Summary for Hackage Ports
by HackageDB Port Checking Service 29 May '10

29 May '10

Current Time: Sun May 30 00:02:53 UTC 2010 The list of ports to be updated: ansi-terminal 0.5.1 -> 0.5.2 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) arrows 0.4.1.2 -> 0.4.2.0 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) cgi 3001.1.7.1 -> 3001.1.8.1 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) checkers 0.2.4 -> 0.2.6 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) convertible 1.0.7 -> 1.0.9 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) criterion 0.4.1.0 -> 0.5.0.0 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) datetime 0.1 -> 0.2 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) ghc-paths 0.1.0.5 -> 0.1.0.6 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) haddock 2.4.2 -> 2.7.2 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) haskell-src-exts 1.5.3 -> 1.9.0 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) hint 0.3.2.1 -> 0.3.2.3 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) hscolour 1.15 -> 1.16 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) hslogger 1.0.7 -> 1.0.10 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) json 0.4.3 -> 0.4.4 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) MissingH 1.1.0.1 -> 1.1.0.3 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) mmap 0.5.4 -> 0.5.6 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) MonadCatchIO-mtl 0.2.0.0 -> 0.3.0.1 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) mueval 0.7.1 -> 0.8 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) mwc-random 0.4.1.1 -> 0.5.0.0 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) scgi 0.3.1 -> 0.3.2 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) show 0.3.3 -> 0.3.4 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) statistics 0.4.1 -> 0.5.1.0 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) tagsoup 0.8 -> 0.10 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) testpack 1.0.2 -> 2.0.0 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) texmath 0.1.1 -> 0.2.0.3 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) transformers 0.1.4.0 -> 0.2.1.0 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) TypeCompose 0.6.7 -> 0.7.0 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) uniplate 1.2.0.3 -> 1.5.1 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) url 2.1 -> 2.1.2 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) uuagc 0.9.12 -> 0.9.23 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) uulib 0.9.10 -> 0.9.12 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) uvector 0.1.1.0 -> 0.1.1.1 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) vector-space 0.5.7 -> 0.6.2 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) xml 1.3.5 -> 1.3.7 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) 34 ports total.

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Re: Renamed Haskell Applications
by wahjava.ml＠gmail.com 28 May '10

28 May '10

Dmitry Marakasov writes: [...] > I strictly object to adding hs- prefix to end-user applications like > darcs and xmonad, because it's a huge POLA violation. Users do not care > what the application is written in, they just search for > devel/{svn,mercurial,darcs} and x11-wm/{xmonad,icewm}, and should find > these ports in the expected places. We don't prefix mercurial with > py- and icewm with c-, similarily we shouldn't prefix darcs et al with > hs-. Modules that are used only for development and as dependencies is a > whole different thing, and definitely are what prefixes are for. I agree with you, but by a pre-existing convention (not carved in stone anywhere, AFAIK) in FreeBSD, I prefer keeping ports prefixed with 'hs-'. 1. Padre, which is an editor hacked in Perl is available from a port named 'p5-Padre'. 2. SpamAssassin, an anti-spam filter is available as 'p5-Mail-SpamAssassin'. 3. Pencil which is a mockup based out-of firefox is available as 'www/xpi-pencil', which even doesn't have anything to do with World Wide Web except that it runs in a www browser, still has name/category like that. 4. Conkeror, the web browser is available as 'xpi-conkeror'. And also having 'hs-' prefix implies their being implemented in Haskell. I'm sure other users who are aware of the convention of p5-, py-, xpi- will try to search for Haskell related app as 'hs-'. So, IMHO 'hs-' for all haskell based ports is a nice idea towards uniformity/symmetry. #v+ % make -C /usr/ports search name=darcs |grep '^Port:' Port: cvs2darcs-0.8 Port: hs-darcs-2.4.3 Port: py26-darcsver-1.5.1 Port: py26-setuptools_darcs-1.2.9 Port: devel/darcs #v- Thanks Ashish SHUKLA -- Sent via Gnus from GNU Emacs They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin

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Renamed Haskell Applications
by Gabor PALI 25 May '10

25 May '10

Hello there, Recently I have tagged the following popular but Cabalized applications in the Ports Collection with the "hs-" prefix: - darcs [1]: devel/darcs -> devel/hs-darcs - pandoc [2]: textproc/pandoc -> textproc/hs-pandoc - xmonad [3]: x11-wm/xmonad -> x11-wm/hs-xmonad, x11-wm/xmonad-contrib -> x11-wm/hs-xmonad-contrib - xmobar [4]: x11/xmobar -> x11/hs-xmobar I would like to ask everybody who is reading this message and using any of these ports to comment on this change. The reason was to do so that they are direct translation of their hackages coming HackageDB [5], and as the port of the Haskell Platform [6] is under way they would really serve the purpose for representing the FreeBSD (binary and stable) version of the corresponding applications. So there would be two (mutually exclusive) ways for installing them. In case of xmonad: - The native way: # pkg_add -r haskell-platform # cabal install xmonad Pros: Access updates and fixes immediately, not need for using the Ports Collection, support for multiple versions for the same packages. Cons: Need to build everything from sources, packages might be broken, cannot remove installed applications. - The FreeBSD way: # pkg_add -r hs-xmonad Pros: Reliable and stable dependencies, versions and updates, support for binary-only installs, support for removing packages. Cons: Might not be the up-to-date, multiple versions for the same package are not supported, not every package is ported. Please send "+1" or "-1" depending on whether you support or object this change. Thank you! Cheers, :g [1] http://www.darcs.net/ [2] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ [3] http://www.xmonad.org/ [4] http://code.haskell.org/~arossato/xmobar/ [5] http://hackage.haskell.org/ [6] http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/

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Periodic Update Summary for Hackage Ports
by HackageDB Port Checking Service 22 May '10

22 May '10

Current Time: Sun May 23 00:02:26 UTC 2010 The list of ports to be updated: ansi-terminal 0.5.1 -> 0.5.2 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) cgi 3001.1.7.1 -> 3001.1.8.1 (jacula(a)gmail.com) checkers 0.2.4 -> 0.2.6 (jacula(a)gmail.com) convertible 1.0.7 -> 1.0.9 (jacula(a)gmail.com) criterion 0.4.1.0 -> 0.5.0.0 (jacula(a)gmail.com) datetime 0.1 -> 0.2 (jacula(a)gmail.com) ghc-paths 0.1.0.5 -> 0.1.0.6 (jacula(a)gmail.com) haddock 2.4.2 -> 2.7.2 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) haskell-src-exts 1.5.3 -> 1.9.0 (jacula(a)gmail.com) hint 0.3.2.1 -> 0.3.2.3 (jacula(a)gmail.com) hscolour 1.15 -> 1.16 (jacula(a)gmail.com) hslogger 1.0.7 -> 1.0.10 (jacula(a)gmail.com) json 0.4.3 -> 0.4.4 (jacula(a)gmail.com) MissingH 1.1.0.1 -> 1.1.0.3 (jacula(a)gmail.com) mmap 0.5.4 -> 0.5.6 (jacula(a)gmail.com) MonadCatchIO-mtl 0.2.0.0 -> 0.3.0.1 (jacula(a)gmail.com) mueval 0.7.1 -> 0.8 (jacula(a)gmail.com) mwc-random 0.4.1.1 -> 0.5.0.0 (jacula(a)gmail.com) scgi 0.3.1 -> 0.3.2 (jacula(a)gmail.com) show 0.3.3 -> 0.3.4 (jacula(a)gmail.com) statistics 0.4.1 -> 0.5.1.0 (jacula(a)gmail.com) tagsoup 0.8 -> 0.9 (jacula(a)gmail.com) testpack 1.0.2 -> 2.0.0 (jacula(a)gmail.com) texmath 0.1.1 -> 0.2.0.3 (jacula(a)gmail.com) transformers 0.1.4.0 -> 0.2.1.0 (jacula(a)gmail.com) TypeCompose 0.6.7 -> 0.7.0 (jacula(a)gmail.com) uniplate 1.2.0.3 -> 1.5.1 (jacula(a)gmail.com) url 2.1 -> 2.1.2 (jacula(a)gmail.com) uuagc 0.9.12 -> 0.9.23 (jacula(a)gmail.com) uulib 0.9.10 -> 0.9.12 (jacula(a)gmail.com) uvector 0.1.1.0 -> 0.1.1.1 (jacula(a)gmail.com) vector-space 0.5.7 -> 0.6.2 (jacula(a)gmail.com) 32 ports total.

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Buidling GHC and Haskell Platform on FreeBSD 8
by Eugene Dzhurinsky 19 May '10

19 May '10

Hello! Is it possible to build haskell platform on FreeBSD 8? I tried to build it as described at http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/linux.html but the cabal didn't built correctly, due to the lack of haskell-src package. I installed GHC 6.12.2 from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_12_2.html#freebsd Thank you in advance! -- Eugene N Dzhurinsky

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wxhaskell on freebsd?
by Tim Matthews 19 May '10

19 May '10

Has anyone ever got wxhaskell to work on freebsd? With ghc-6.12.2 binaries I get a very useless message if I try to install with cabal: % cabal install wx Resolving dependencies... [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( /tmp/wxcore-0.12.1.42775/wxcore-0.12.1.4/Setup.hs, /tmp/wxcore-0.12.1.42775/wxcore-0.12.1.4/dist/setup/Main.o ) Linking /tmp/wxcore-0.12.1.42775/wxcore-0.12.1.4/dist/setup/setup ... generating: src/haskell/Graphics/UI/WXCore/WxcClassTypes.hs reading class definitions: parsing: src/include/wxc.h parsing: src/include/wxc_types.h parsing: src/include/wxc_glue.h parsing: src/include/db.h parsing: src/include/dragimage.h parsing: src/include/graphicscontext.h parsing: src/include/sound.h parsing: src/include/managed.h parsing: src/include/mediactrl.h parsing: src/include/previewframe.h parsing: src/include/printout.h parsing: src/include/textstream.h parsing: src/include/stc.h parsing: src/include/stc_gen.h generated 539 class definitions. ok. generating: src/haskell/Graphics/UI/WXCore/WxcClassInfo.hs reading class definitions: parsing: src/include/wxc.h parsing: src/include/wxc_types.h parsing: src/include/wxc_glue.h parsing: src/include/db.h parsing: src/include/dragimage.h parsing: src/include/graphicscontext.h parsing: src/include/sound.h parsing: src/include/managed.h parsing: src/include/mediactrl.h parsing: src/include/previewframe.h parsing: src/include/printout.h parsing: src/include/textstream.h parsing: src/include/stc.h parsing: src/include/stc_gen.h generated 381 class info definitions ok. parsing: src/include/wxc.h parsing: src/include/wxc_types.h parsing: src/include/wxc_glue.h parsing: src/include/db.h parsing: src/include/dragimage.h parsing: src/include/graphicscontext.h parsing: src/include/sound.h parsing: src/include/managed.h parsing: src/include/mediactrl.h parsing: src/include/previewframe.h parsing: src/include/printout.h parsing: src/include/textstream.h parsing: src/include/stc.h parsing: src/include/stc_gen.h ignore: parse error : //WXCOLORREF wxColour_GetPixel( TSelf(wxColour) _obj ); generating: src/haskell/Graphics/UI/WXCore/WxcClassesAL.hs reading class definitions: parsing: src/include/wxc.h parsing: src/include/wxc_types.h parsing: src/include/wxc_glue.h parsing: src/include/db.h parsing: src/include/dragimage.h parsing: src/include/graphicscontext.h parsing: src/include/sound.h parsing: src/include/managed.h parsing: src/include/mediactrl.h parsing: src/include/previewframe.h parsing: src/include/printout.h parsing: src/include/textstream.h parsing: src/include/stc.h parsing: src/include/stc_gen.h generated 1560 methods for 120 classes. generating: src/haskell/Graphics/UI/WXCore/WxcClassesMZ.hs generated 2184 methods for 123 classes. generating: src/haskell/Graphics/UI/WXCore/WxcClasses.hs generated 3744 total methods for 243 total classes. ok. parsing: src/eiffel/wxc_defs.e parsing: src/eiffel/wx_defs.e parsing: src/eiffel/stc.e generating: src/haskell/Graphics/UI/WXCore/WxcDefs.hs generated 2439 constant definitions ok. setup: failed cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: wx-0.12.1.4 depends on wxcore-0.12.1.4 which failed to install. wxcore-0.12.1.4 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 I would like to try this on freebsd and before I look into it in any depth I was wondering if anyone has already ported it to save any dupe efforts. Thanks.

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Error building GHC 6.12.1 in Tinderbox tracked finally.
by wahjava.ml＠gmail.com 19 May '10

19 May '10

Hi everyone, I hope you remember the issue we're facing with GHC 6.12.1 port dying in Tinderbox[1]. I finally tracked it. And following is how I reproduced that error on my box: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- chateau.d.if!abbe:ghc-devel % PACKAGES=/tmp/packages make ===> Found saved configuration for ghc-6.12.1 ===> Extracting for ghc-6.12.1 => MD5 Checksum OK for ghc-6.12.1-src.tar.bz2. => SHA256 Checksum OK for ghc-6.12.1-src.tar.bz2. => MD5 Checksum OK for ghc-6.12.1-amd64-ash0-freebsd8-boot.tar.bz2. => SHA256 Checksum OK for ghc-6.12.1-amd64-ash0-freebsd8-boot.tar.bz2. => MD5 Checksum OK for hscolour-1.15.tar.gz. => SHA256 Checksum OK for hscolour-1.15.tar.gz. => MD5 Checksum OK for ghc-paths-0.1.0.6.tar.gz. => SHA256 Checksum OK for ghc-paths-0.1.0.6.tar.gz. => MD5 Checksum OK for alex-2.3.3.tar.gz. => SHA256 Checksum OK for alex-2.3.3.tar.gz. => MD5 Checksum OK for happy-1.18.4.tar.gz. => SHA256 Checksum OK for happy-1.18.4.tar.gz. => MD5 Checksum OK for haddock-2.6.0.tar.gz. => SHA256 Checksum OK for haddock-2.6.0.tar.gz. ===> ghc-6.12.1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.10.1 - found ===> Patching for ghc-6.12.1 ===> ghc-6.12.1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.10.1 - found ===> Applying FreeBSD patches for ghc-6.12.1 ===> ghc-6.12.1 depends on file: /usr/local/share/xsl/docbook/html - found ===> ghc-6.12.1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/xsltproc - found ===> ghc-6.12.1 depends on executable: gmake - found ===> ghc-6.12.1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.10.1 - found ===> ghc-6.12.1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf-2.62 - found ===> ghc-6.12.1 depends on shared library: gmp.10 - found ===> ghc-6.12.1 depends on shared library: iconv.3 - found ===> Configuring for ghc-6.12.1 checking for path to top of build tree... /usr/home/abbe/freebsd-haskell/ports/lang/ghc-devel/work/ghc-6.12.1-boot checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking if your perl works in shell scripts... yes checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for ar... /usr/bin/ar checking whether /usr/bin/ar is GNU ar... no checking for ar arguments... clqs checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking whether ranlib is needed... no checking for sed... /usr/bin/sed checking version of gcc... 4.2.1 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for extra options to pass gcc when compiling via C... -fwrapv configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating extra-gcc-opts config.status: creating mk/config.mk config.status: creating mk/install.mk **************************************************** Configuration done, ready to 'make install' (see README and INSTALL files for more info.) **************************************************** gmake -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk install BINDIST=YES NO_INCLUDE_DEPS=YES ghc.mk:612: libraries//tmp/packages/ghc.mk: No such file or directory gmake[1]: *** No rule to make target `libraries//tmp/packages/ghc.mk'. Stop. gmake: *** [install] Error 2 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/home/abbe/freebsd-haskell/ports/lang/ghc-devel. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/home/abbe/freebsd-haskell/ports/lang/ghc-devel. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I hope this was the only hurdle we'd. Now any ideas how to sanitize the environment ? Using env(1) or any other better way ? References: [1] http://pastie.org/966481 Thanks -- Ashish SHUKLA Sent via Gnus from GNU Emacs

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Ports in Preparation
by Gabor PALI 18 May '10

18 May '10

Folks, I have created a table on Haskell-related ports in preparation on the FreeBSD wiki [1]. It displays the current state of on-going porting efforts in order to help to avoid duplication of work. If you have a complete solution for any of the listed ports, feel free to notify the responsible person and CC us [2]. We are trying to keep it updated in the future, and move it to our own gitit wiki in the longer term (where you will be able to freely update your own entries). Do not forget to check the active GNATS PRs before starting to work on something. Have fun with porting Haskell to FreeBSD! :) Cheers, :g [1] http://wiki.freebsd.org/Haskell [2] mailto:haskell@freebsd.org

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Periodic Update Summary for Hackage Ports
by HackageDB Port Checking Service 15 May '10

15 May '10

Current Time: Sun May 16 00:00:36 UTC 2010 The list of ports to be updated: cgi 3001.1.7.1 -> 3001.1.8.1 (jacula(a)gmail.com) checkers 0.2.4 -> 0.2.6 (jacula(a)gmail.com) convertible 1.0.7 -> 1.0.9 (jacula(a)gmail.com) cpphs 1.9 -> 1.11 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) criterion 0.4.1.0 -> 0.5.0.0 (jacula(a)gmail.com) datetime 0.1 -> 0.2 (jacula(a)gmail.com) ghc-paths 0.1.0.5 -> 0.1.0.6 (jacula(a)gmail.com) haddock 2.4.2 -> 2.6.1 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) haskell-src-exts 1.5.3 -> 1.9.0 (jacula(a)gmail.com) hint 0.3.2.1 -> 0.3.2.3 (jacula(a)gmail.com) hscolour 1.15 -> 1.16 (jacula(a)gmail.com) hslogger 1.0.7 -> 1.0.10 (jacula(a)gmail.com) json 0.4.3 -> 0.4.4 (jacula(a)gmail.com) MissingH 1.1.0.1 -> 1.1.0.3 (jacula(a)gmail.com) mmap 0.5.4 -> 0.5.6 (jacula(a)gmail.com) MonadCatchIO-mtl 0.2.0.0 -> 0.3.0.1 (jacula(a)gmail.com) mueval 0.7.1 -> 0.8 (jacula(a)gmail.com) mwc-random 0.4.1.1 -> 0.5.0.0 (jacula(a)gmail.com) QuickCheck 2.1.0.2 -> 2.1.0.3 (jacula(a)gmail.com) scgi 0.3.1 -> 0.3.2 (jacula(a)gmail.com) show 0.3.3 -> 0.3.4 (jacula(a)gmail.com) statistics 0.4.1 -> 0.5.1.0 (jacula(a)gmail.com) tagsoup 0.8 -> 0.9 (jacula(a)gmail.com) testpack 1.0.2 -> 2.0.0 (jacula(a)gmail.com) texmath 0.1.1 -> 0.2.0.3 (jacula(a)gmail.com) transformers 0.1.4.0 -> 0.2.1.0 (jacula(a)gmail.com) TypeCompose 0.6.7 -> 0.7.0 (jacula(a)gmail.com) uniplate 1.2.0.3 -> 1.5.1 (jacula(a)gmail.com) url 2.1 -> 2.1.2 (jacula(a)gmail.com) uuagc 0.9.12 -> 0.9.23 (jacula(a)gmail.com) uulib 0.9.10 -> 0.9.12 (jacula(a)gmail.com) uvector 0.1.1.0 -> 0.1.1.1 (jacula(a)gmail.com) vector-space 0.5.7 -> 0.6.2 (jacula(a)gmail.com) xmobar 0.9.2 -> 0.11 (haskell(a)FreeBSD.org) 34 ports total.

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