May 2003 - Glasgow-haskell-users

ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.0
by Simon Marlow 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

============================================================ The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.0 ============================================================ We are pleased to announce a new major release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), version 6.0. As with all ".0" releases, this release should be considered beta-quality; if you want real stability, then stick with 5.04.3 for the time being. Highlights of this release include: * Template Haskell, a new metaprogramming extension. * More hierarchical libraries. * Conformance with the latest FFI specification. * Sweeping internal changes to switch the evaluation model from "push/enter" to "eval/apply". See the release notes for a full list of the changes: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/release-6-0.html How to get it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be self-explanatory: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ We supply binary builds in the native package format for various flavours of Linux and BSD, and in Windows Installer (MSI) form for Windows folks. Binary builds for other platforms are available as a .tar.gz which can be installed wherever you want. The source distribution is also available from the same place. Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your system isn't available yet, please try again later. Background ~~~~~~~~~~ Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language; the current language version is Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998, and revised in December 2002. GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick development. The distribution includes space and time profiling facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign language interfaces (C, whatever). GHC is distributed under a BSD-style open source license. A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries, specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references, contact information, links to research groups) are available from the Haskell home page (see below). On-line GHC-related resources ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web: GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/ comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/faq.html System requirements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To compile programs with GHC, you need a machine with 64+MB memory, GCC and perl. This release is known to work on the following platforms: * i386-unknown-{linux,*bsd,mingw32} * sparc-sun-solaris2 * alpha-dec-osf3 * powerpc-apple-darwin (MacOS/X) Ports to the following platforms should be relatively easy (for a wunderhacker), but haven't been tested due to lack of time/hardware: * hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10} * i386-unknown-solaris2 * mips-sgi-irix{5,6} * {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix The builder's guide on the web site gives a complete run-down of what ports work; it can be found at http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/building-guide.html Mailing lists ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use the web interfaces at http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs There are several other haskell and ghc-related mailing lists on www.haskell.org; for the full list, see http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ Please report bugs using our SourceForge page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/ or send them to glasgow-haskell-bugs(a)haskell.org. GHC users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users(a)haskell.org. Bleeding edge CVS users party on cvs-ghc(a)haskell.org.

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RTS options in binaries
by Tomasz Zielonka 02 Jun '03

02 Jun '03

Hi! Is there an easy way to hardcode RTS options in binaries produced by GHC? I know I can make a shell script but an option in GHC could be nicer. Best regards, Tom -- .signature: Too many levels of symbolic links

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RE: GHC 6.0 Release: sparc-solaris2 binaries
by Simon Marlow 02 Jun '03

02 Jun '03

> A binary version of GHC6 is available for sparc-solaris2 machines at: > > http://www.isi.edu/~hdaume/ghc-6.0-sparc-solaris2.tar.bz2 > 17.5 mb > > I'd appreciate it if the maintainers could copy it and make > it available > locally off of the GHC web page so as to not kill bandwidth here :). Uploaded, thanks! Are the notes about libcurses etc. still relevant? (see the download page). Cheers, Simon

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RE: can't manage to compile ghc6
by Simon Marlow 30 May '03

30 May '03

> I'm having trouble compiling ghc6. I have two versions of ghc > installed at the moment, one is 5.04.2 from Debian, and another is a > CVS snapshot from some time back that I've been using because it fixes > a pet bug of mine. I can't seem to use either of these to build ghc6 > from source on i386 linux. The failure seems to be occuring during > the make boot stage. Is there any particular compiler I need to build > ghc 6? Are you using GCC 3.3 by any chance? Cheers, Simon

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glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org
by sms 30 May '03

30 May '03

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HaXml and ghc-6.0 (was Re: can't manage to compile ghc6)
by Malcolm Wallace 30 May '03

30 May '03

Jan Scheffczyk <jan.scheffczyk(a)gmx.net> writes: > I installed HaXml 1.08 newly under ghc 6 and get the following error when > using ghci -package HaXml: > > GHCi runtime linker: fatal error: I found a duplicate definition for symbol > TextziPrettyPrintziHughesPJ_zdzpzd_entry > whilst processing object file > /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.0/HSHaXml.o > This could be caused by: > * Loading two different object files which export the same symbol > * Specifying the same object file twice on the GHCi command line > * An incorrect `package.conf' entry, causing some object to be > loaded twice. The cause is a simple configuration problem. HaXml checks for ghc version >= 504 and deletes the extra copy of Text.PrettyPrint.HughesPJ. Unfortunately, with the change in version numbering format, 60 < 504, so the test fails. You need to apply the following patch to the HaXml configure script. Regards, Malcolm Index: configure =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/root/HaXml/configure,v retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -r1.6 configure --- configure 15 Apr 2003 20:16:44 -0000 1.6 +++ configure 30 May 2003 15:29:57 -0000 @@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ GHCKNOWN=`which ghc` GHCVERSION=`${GHCKNOWN} --version 2>&1 | sed 's/^.*version[ ]*$[0-9.]*$.*/\1/'` GHCNUM=`echo $GHCVERSION | tr "v." " " | ( read x y z; echo $x$y; )` + if [ "$GHCNUM" -lt "100" ] + then GHCNUM=${GHCNUM}0 + fi fi if [ "$GHCKNOWN" = "" ] then echo "(not found)" @@ -98,6 +101,9 @@ GHC2KNOWN=`which $BUILDWITH` GHC2VERSION=`${GHC2KNOWN} --version 2>&1 | sed 's/^.*version[ ]*$[0-9.]*$.*/\1/'` GHC2NUM=`echo $GHC2VERSION | tr "." " " | ( read x y z; echo $x$y; )` + if [ "$GHC2NUM" -lt "100" ] + then GHC2NUM=${GHC2NUM}0 + fi fi if [ "$GHC2KNOWN" = "" ] then echo "(not found)"

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can't manage to compile ghc6
by Isaac Jones 30 May '03

30 May '03

Greetings, I'm having trouble compiling ghc6. I have two versions of ghc installed at the moment, one is 5.04.2 from Debian, and another is a CVS snapshot from some time back that I've been using because it fixes a pet bug of mine. I can't seem to use either of these to build ghc6 from source on i386 linux. The failure seems to be occuring during the make boot stage. Is there any particular compiler I need to build ghc 6? See below for some compiling output. peace, isaac (no configure options except --prefix and --with-ghc for the two different versions) Using a somewhat old CVS version (I don't recall having trouble building this): ------------------------------------------------------------ /usr/local/bin/ghc -M -optdep-f -optdep.depend-BASE -osuf o -I../includes -H16m -O -iutils -ibasicTypes -itypes -ihsSyn -iprelude -irename -itypecheck -ideSugar -icoreSyn -ispecialise -isimplCore -istranal -istgSyn -isimplStg -icodeGen -iabsCSyn -imain -iprofiling -iparser -icprAnalysis -icompMan -indpFlatten -inativeGen -cpp -fglasgow-exts -Rghc-timing -I. -IcodeGen -InativeGen -Iparser -package concurrent -package posix -package util -recomp -Rghc-timing -H16M '-#include ... utils/UniqSet.lhs utils/Util.lhs main/DriverPipeline.hs:1008: warning: extra tokens at end of #endif directive main/SysTools.lhs: can't locate import `System.Posix.Internals' <<ghc: 83356908 bytes, 24 GCs, 80924/80924 avg/max bytes residency (1 samples), 16M in use, 0.01 INIT (0.00 elapsed), 0.50 MUT (2.41 elapsed), 0.07 GC (0.08 elapsed) :ghc>>make[2]: *** [depend] Error 1 make[1]: *** [boot] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/ijones/usr/src/haskell/ghc/ghc-6.0/ghc' make: *** [build] Error 1 ------------------------------------------------------------ Using 5.04.3 from Debian: /usr/bin/ghc -M -optdep-f -optdep.depend-BASE -osuf o -I../includes -H16m -O -iutils -ibasicTypes -itypes -ihsSyn -iprelude -irename -itypecheck -ideSugar -icoreSyn -ispecialise -isimplCore -istranal -istgSyn -isimplStg -icodeGen -iabsCSyn -imain -iprofiling -iparser -icprAnalysis -icompMan -indpFlatten -inativeGen -cpp -fglasgow-exts -Rghc-timing -I. -IcodeGen -InativeGen -Iparser -package concurrent -package posix -package util -recomp -Rghc-timing -H16M '-#include ... nativeGen/MachCode.lhs:4404: warning: extra tokens at end of #endif directive nativeGen/MachCode.lhs:4460: warning: extra tokens at end of #endif directive nativeGen/MachCode.lhs:4509: warning: extra tokens at end of #endif directive nativeGen/MachMisc.lhs:80: unterminated argument list invoking macro "IF_ARCH_alpha" <<ghc: 325535444 bytes, 59 GCs, 122060/122060 avg/max bytes residency (1 samples), 16M in use, 0.01 INIT (0.00 elapsed), 1.66 MUT (4.81 elapsed), 0.08 GC (0.09 elapsed) :ghc>> make[2]: *** [depend] Error 1 make[1]: *** [boot] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/ijones/usr/src/haskell/ghc/ghc-6.0/ghc' make: *** [build] Error 1

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RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.0
by Simon Marlow 30 May '03

30 May '03

> There is a strange error message in ghc-pkg-6.0, viz. > > $ ghc-pkg-6.0 --list-packages > option `--list-packages' is ambiguous; could be one of: > -l --list-packages List packages in all config > files > -L --list-packages-local List packages in the > specified config file > > Hmm. Perhaps you should rename the long form of -L to > --list-local-packages. Done, thanks for the report. Cheers, Simon

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ghc-split accepts building 6.0 on Windows
by Dominic Cooney 30 May '03

30 May '03

My environment's TEMP and TMP are C:\temp, but for some reason, my recent Cygwin install makes 'TEMP' and 'TMP' /cygdrive/c/temp/4; this duly gets passed to ghc-inplace as C:\temp\4. Then, in libraries\base, ghc-split complains that \4 mentions a non-existent group in a regexp: ../../ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace -H16m -O -fglasgow-exts -cpp -Iinclude -#include HsBase.h -Icbits/regex -funbox-strict-fields -package-name base -O -Rghc-timing -split-objs -c GHC/Base.lhs -o GHC/Base.o -ohi GHC/Base.hi Reference to nonexistent group in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/"c:\temp\4 <--HERE \ghc936.split\.c"/ at d:\\users\\cooney\\ghc\\ghc-6.0\ghc\driver\split\ghc-split line 51, <TMPI> line 23. make[2]: *** [GHC/Base.o] Error 255 All I needed to do was editing ghc\driver\split\ghc-split so $Tmp_prefix = $ARGV[1] was instead ($Tmp_prefix = $ARGV[1]) =~ s/\\/\\\\/g; I don't know whether this habit of appending \4 is a delightful quirk of my Cygwin install, but FWIW for other Windows Server 2k3/Cygwin users out there... Dominic Cooney

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