August 2003 - Glasgow-haskell-users

TAYLOR
by taylor_jr＠excite.com 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

ATTENTION: THE PRESIDENT/CHAIRMAN. CEO/MD First, may I solicit your confidentiality in this transaction, this by virtue of its nature. I am Mr Lutherking taylor Jr, a cousin to the president Charles Taylor of Liberia . As a result of the increasing rebel hostility in my country and the recent indictment of Charles Taylor by the international war crimes tribunal, he has mandated me to look for a reliable partner who will urgently assist in the collection of consignment of boxes containing cash of (US$22.5M) he kept in safe custody with a security management company in Spain and it is registered as farmily valiables. We need a foreigner whom we will portray as the bona-fide owner of the consignment to prevent the company from finding out the consignment belongs to president Taylor and thereby confiscating such because of the current military fiasco in my country. Thereafter, this fund will be invested to your company or you advice us on any lucrative project to put the fund into. The president has handed over to me the title documents, and all necessary arrangements have been made to perfect the business . I will want to be guaranteed that you will be able to handle this huge amount of money for an investment project.Upon receipt of your positive response, I will suggest we meet possible in Spain for us to work out modalities concerning the investment of the money and the ratio you will receive after the collection of the boxes from the security company in Spain. Therefore , I will be grateful if you handle this as top priority because this is one opportunity we can not afford to loose. Please contact me on this email address( taylor_jr(a)excite.com or taylor_jnr(a)excite.com) I urge you to please keep this transaction very confidential, as I am expecting your urgent reply to indicate your interest, however if you are not interested to assist us, you let me know urgently to enable me contact another willing partner. Tel: +34-680-902-518 Best Regards Lutherking Taylor Jr

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Sincere request
by Jonson Tubman 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Dear friend, This letter may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have not yet met, but kindly consider the message, because, I am determined to live for posterity. I wish to plead with you to join me in not only serving humanity, but to also benefit in the process. This message could be strange but reality will definitely dawn on you, if you pay some attention to its contents. Please accept my sincere apologies in bringing this message to you; I have to say that I do not intend to cause you any personal pains or discomfort. I am Mr. Jonson Tubman, former Special Assistant to the Liberian President, Mr. Charles Taylor, who just stepped down from the office of the President due to rebel's insurgency who wants to overthrow his government. President Charles Taylor, in his bid to fend-off rebel insurgency, and since he could no longer trust the army generals, confidentially put in my care, the sum of $18,000,000.00 (eighteen million United States dollars) in one instance for the purpose of purchasing arms and ammunitions should the need arise. However, unfortunately, the need did not arise as he has gone on exile. I deposited the US$18 million in a trunk box in a secret location and just the two of us knew about it, and I could not get in touch with any arms dealer before the President was indicted in a war crime tribunal set up by the United Nations (UN). I have since held on to this trunk box, which I was able to transport out of Liberia with the aid of peace keeping soldiers under the guise of conveying my personal effects without anybody knowing, to a security deposit company. I am presently in Africa, where I now work as a consultant on inter-regional co-operation. I have borne the burden for too long. I do not want to keep the funds any longer, but I can never turn it over to the brutal and tyrannical rogue regime of Mr. Charles Taylor who is still committing all sorts of atrocities on the Liberian people. I am NOT soliciting for your help to wage a war against the regime, but to act as a foreign partner, to allow me transfer the funds to you, which you will in turn donate a portion of it as a humanitarian gesture to the Liberian people by purchasing such essential needs like blankets, milk and so on, water-pumping machines and agricultural equipment, from the money after deducting your expenses and the commission of 20%. Please note that I could have approached the Red Cross Society, but I changed my mind on that after calculating what they would deduct as commission, and also, after rationalizing the scandal that followed their mismanagement of the donations meant for the victims of the September 11th attack on the United States. Also, note that this offer will give you a double-edged advantage: 1. As the benefactor of the Liberian people and; 2. The commission you stand to earn. On getting a positive response from you, I will send to you the secret access codes to the funds and the security and vault company. Please note that confidentiality and honesty are fundamental rules in this transaction. Be assured that I am a reputable personality in this country and I am mindful of the legal implications of this transaction, as I intend taking care of all the legal documentations for a successful and hitch-free transaction. You will be expected to take delivery of this fund personally from the deposit company in Europe. I am therefore soliciting your assistance to have this money collected by you and/or facilitate the transfer into your nominated account(s). ***PLEASE NOTE THAT YOUR CONFIDENTIALITY IN THIS TRANSACTION IS HIGHLY REQUIRED. I will give you the details of this transaction on receipt of your response to this proposal. Thank you very much for your time and understanding. Yours sincerely, Mr. Jonson Tubman

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PLS READ
by alisesay1＠hotbox.ru 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Dear Sir This letter may come to you as a surprise because we have not met. The decision to write you is out of a sincere desire to establish a business/mutual relationship with you. I got your contact through the international trade and commerce chamber (ITCC) in Madrid. My name is Mr. Ali Sesay Karimu, the son of John Karimu (the former Secretary of state for finance) who was killed and mutilated by the military junta led by Major Paul Koroma after over-throwing the elected government of President Tijan Kabba. Though, I do not know to what extent you are familiar with events and disturbances in Sierra-Leone but it has consistent features in the CNN, BBC news bulletins. The pressure of war drove the rest of my family out of Sierra-Leone into exile in Spain where we have been living under political asylum for the past 3 years. Sadly, my mother died of cancer 3 months ago and was buried in Madrid. Prior to her death, she gave me a certificate for a secret deposit that my father made in a security company in Europe (destination will be disclosed later for security reason). The deposit which is worth $32,000.000 (Thirty-two Million U.S. Dollars) was money set apart for government propaganda against the rebel forces. He made the deposit in his name with the hope of converting it to his personal use at the end of the war but was killed as a result of his opposition to the rebel forces when the conflict intensified. I have contacted the Security Company to confirm the deposit and establish ownership. The money was however deposited as family treasure. Due to the death of my mother and the continued hostility in Sierra-Leone, I have decided to solicit the assistance of an honest and trustworthy person or company that will assist in investing the money. I cannot do it alone due to my present political status and total ignorance of the business world. You will be given a negotiable percentage of the money at the end of the transaction. If you are honest, trustworthy and interested in the above proposal, contact me immediately through the number/email address indicated above for more details. You must maintain absolute confidentiality to ensure success. Please, indicate your personal Tel./Fax nos. when replying. Regards, Ali Sesay Karimu.

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Disallowed attachment type found in sent message "Re: That movie"
by System Anti-Virus Administrator 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

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Unreg/registerised hc booting success
by dons＠cse.unsw.edu.au 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Hey all, Here is a (long) summary of how I have bootstraped GHC on various os/arch combinations using 6.0.1 .hc source, including getting an unregisterised build, over the weekend. 1. Generating registerised .hc files ------------------------------------- ...on a machine with GHC 6.0.1 installed. This process has worked on an x86 OpenBSD box, and an x86 Linux box. I used the following build.mk, extracted from the nightly build scripts: --------------------------------------------------------------- GhcStage1HcOpts = -H48m -fvia-C GhcStage2HcOpts = -H48m -fvia-C GhcStage3HcOpts = -H48m -fvia-C -keep-hc-file GhcLibHcOpts = -H48m -fvia-C -keep-hc-file GhcLibWays = SplitObjs=NO # add this after the normal build, and after 'gmake clean' in # utils, in order to get the proper symbols in utils #SRC_HC_OPTS+=-keep-hc-file -fvia-C -H48m BIN_DIST = 1 --------------------------------------------------------------- The process was as follows (presuming you have untarred a nice, shiny ghc-6.0.1 src): $ ./configure $ make bootstrap3 This was all good, but the problem was: no .hc files were made in ghc/utils. Setting SRC_HC_OPTS the whole time was no good, as we ended up with wrong symbols in ghc/utils/*.hc. The solution is to then: $ ./configure --with-hc=`pwd`/ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace # then uncomment out the SRC_HC_OPTS line of mk/build.mk $ ( cd ghc/utils ; make clean ; make ) $ make hc-file-bundle Project=Ghc You should now find a proper .hc file bundle in the fptools directory, ready to install over the full Haskell source. Also, I had a weird problem with parser-generated files missing in the .hc build. This was due to the hc-file-bundle from the shadow tree containing *links* to the now-missing parser generated .hs files, not the files themselves. The solution is to do the above .hc generating build inside a real tree, not a shadow (lndir'd) tree. 2. Bootstrapping with registerised .hc files -------------------------------------------- I had to modify 3 files: distrib/hc-build: to correctly touch stage1 files for "make install" mk/bootstrap.mk: was out of date for 6.0.1 libraries libraries/readline/Makefile: didn't like stub files on booting Then: # untar the .hc source of a clean Haskell source tree $ distrib/hc-build --prefix=`pwd` $ make install stage=1 With these steps, and the following 3 patches, I was able to boostrap from 6.0.1 .hc files successfully on both Linux and OpenBSD x86 boxes. 3. Unregisterised building -------------------------- Now by following the above instructions, and applying the appended patches, along with setting "GhcUnregisterised = YES" in the first build.mk, and then again in the bootstrapping distrib/hc-build, *and* running distrib/hc-build with --enable-hc-boot-unregisterised I was able to build an unregisterised compiler and libraries successfully on an x86 box (didn't try on Linux this time). I am about to see if I can take these unreg files and boot a sparc straight to 6.0.1. The main problem in all of this was generating correct .hc files in the first place :) Cheers, Don The patches (to get .hc building working) for SimonM to look at: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- distrib/hc-build.orig 2003-07-25 20:23:30.000000000 +1000 +++ distrib/hc-build 2003-08-25 13:47:44.000000000 +1000 @@ -72,11 +72,6 @@ primop-usage.hs-incl \ primop-primop-info.hs-incl" -# The reconfigure step updates a few files, which can lead to -# unnecessary recompilations. Touch a bunch of things here to avoid -# having to recompile stuff that we've already built. -(cd ghc/compiler; touch $PRIMOP_BITS parser/hschooks.o prelude/PrimOp.o main/Config.hs main/Config.o ghc-*) - # Remove the old libraries. Don't use make clean, because we don't # want to delete the .hs files generated from the .hsc files, because # we don't have hsc2hs built yet. @@ -95,7 +90,10 @@ # Now we can build hslibs (hsc2hs is required, so must be after ghc/utils) $MAKE -C hslibs boot all +# The reconfigure step updates a few files, which can lead to +# unnecessary recompilations. Touch a bunch of things here to avoid +# having to recompile stuff that we've already built. # Avoid relinking the compiler during 'make install': -(cd ghc/compiler; touch parser/hschooks.o ghc-*) +(cd ghc/compiler/; touch $PRIMOP_BITS main/Config.hs stage1/parser/hschooks.o stage1/prelude/PrimOp.o stage1/main/Config.o stage1/ghc-* ghc-inplace) # At this point, the tree should be safe to do 'make install' in. --- libraries/readline/Makefile.orig 2003-08-25 13:47:07.000000000 +1000 +++ libraries/readline/Makefile 2003-08-25 13:47:14.000000000 +1000 @@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ SRC_CC_OPTS += -I$(ReadlineIncludePath) SRC_HSC2HS_OPTS += -I$(ReadlineIncludePath) endif +ifneq "$(BootingFromHc)" "YES" STUBOBJS += System/Console/Readline_stub.$(way_)o +endif CLEAN_FILES += System/Console/Readline_stub.[ch] $(STUBOBJS) else EXCLUDED_SRCS += System/Console/Readline.hsc System/Console/Readline_stub.c --- mk/bootstrap.mk.orig 2003-07-25 00:08:25.000000000 +1000 +++ mk/bootstrap.mk 2003-08-25 13:46:22.000000000 +1000 @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ # Reset TOP TOP:=$(TOP_SAVED) +include $(TOP)/mk/suffix.mk + # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Set the platform-specific options to send to the C compiler. These should # match the list in machdepCCOpts in ghc/compiler/DriverFlags.hs. @@ -68,7 +70,8 @@ HC_BOOT_CC_OPTS = $(PLATFORM_HC_BOOT_CC_OPTS) $(PLATFORM_CC_OPTS) $(CC_OPTS) -SRC_CC_OPTS += -I$(FPTOOLS_TOP_ABS)/ghc/includes -I$(FPTOOLS_TOP_ABS)/libraries/base/include -I$(FPTOOLS_TOP_ABS)/libraries/unix/include +SRC_CC_OPTS += -I$(FPTOOLS_TOP_ABS)/ghc/includes -I$(FPTOOLS_TOP_ABS)/libraries/base/include -I$(FPTOOLS_TOP_ABS)/libraries/unix/include -I$(FPTOOLS_TOP_ABS)/libraries/readline/include + # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Linking: we have to give all the libraries explicitly. @@ -89,6 +92,10 @@ -L$(FPTOOLS_TOP_ABS)/libraries/base \ -L$(FPTOOLS_TOP_ABS)/libraries/base/cbits \ -L$(FPTOOLS_TOP_ABS)/libraries/haskell98 \ + -L$(FPTOOLS_TOP_ABS)/libraries/haskell-src \ + -L$(FPTOOLS_TOP_ABS)/libraries/readline \ + -L$(FPTOOLS_TOP_ABS)/libraries/unix \ + -L$(FPTOOLS_TOP_ABS)/libraries/unix/cbits \ -u "$(UNDERSCORE)GHCziBase_Izh_static_info" \ -u "$(UNDERSCORE)GHCziBase_Czh_static_info" \ -u "$(UNDERSCORE)GHCziFloat_Fzh_static_info" \ @@ -121,7 +128,7 @@ -u "$(UNDERSCORE)GHCziWeak_runFinalizzerBatch_closure" \ -u "$(UNDERSCORE)__stginit_Prelude" -HC_BOOT_LIBS = -lHShaskell98 -lHSbase -lHSbase_cbits -lHSrts -lgmp -lm $(EXTRA_HC_BOOT_LIBS) +HC_BOOT_LIBS = -lHShaskell98 -lHSreadline -lHShaskell-src -lHSunix -lHSunix_cbits -lHSbase -lHSbase_cbits -lHSrts -lgmp -lm -lreadline -lncurses $(EXTRA_HC_BOOT_LIBS) ifeq "$(GhcLibsWithReadline)" "YES" HC_BOOT_LIBS += $(patsubst %, -l%, $(LibsReadline))

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23 Aug '03

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RE: Arrow syntax
by Simon Peyton-Jones 23 Aug '03

23 Aug '03

No, it's only in the HEAD, which you may be able to pick up from a development snapshot, or you can build from source. It'll be in 6.2 I'm not certain if the syntax is identical; Ross will know Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: glasgow-haskell-users-admin(a)haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-admin@haskell.org] | On Behalf Of Nicolas Oury | Sent: 21 August 2003 18:50 | To: glasgow-haskell-users(a)haskell.org | Subject: Arrow syntax | | Hello all, | | Is the experimental arrow syntax extension in ghc 6.01? | | Is it the same as with the preprocessor? | | | Thanks. | Best regards, | | | Nicolas Oury | | _______________________________________________ | Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list | Glasgow-haskell-users(a)haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users

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Urgent business assistance
by Ola Abiola 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

Monsieur/Madam, Tout d�abord, je voudrais solliciter votre ultime confidence pour cette proposition. C�est par la vertu de la nature de la transaction qu�il est n�cessaire d��tre confidentiel et plus discret. J�ai obtenu votre adresse dans l�annuaire de votre pays . Je suis Mr. Ola ABIOLA, le fils du chef BASHORUN MKO ABIOLA qui �tait mort en d�tention politique le 7 juillet 1998. Mon p�re avait contest� l��lection pr�sidentielle au Nigeria du 12 juin 1993 qu�il avait gagn� mais annul�e. Il �tait emp�ch� du fauteuil pr�sidentiel par l�ancienne association du nord dans le pays connue populairement comme<<KADUNA MAFIA>>. Cette assoc iation regroupe les anciens chefs d�Etats militaire et la derni�re junte militaire G�n�ral SANI ABACHA qui est mort le 8 juin 1998. Ils ont jur� de ne pas abdiquer le fauteuil pr�sidentiel � un sudiste, revendiquant que le fauteuil est pour les natifs du nord. Pour se d�barrasser de mon p�re, ils raisonnaient que mon p�re avait d�pens� de l�argent pour gagner le mandat du public, d�o� l�annulation de l��lection . La situation s�est empyr�e la veille du 12 juin, Ier anniversaire(11 juin 1994) lorsque mon p�re s�est d�clar� pr�sident de la R�publique F�d�rale du Nigeria. Pour cette raison, la junte d�clare que mon p�re est recherch�. Il fut arr�t � et il n��tait pas ni jug� ni lib�r� jusqu�� sa mort. En outre, ma m�re ALHADJA KUDIRAT ABIOLA qui luttait pour la lib�ration de mon p�re fut assassin� par des inconnus arm�s le 4 juin 1996. Il faut noter qu�avant la mort de ma m�re, elle avait d�pos�e une somme de 35.300.000 US$(trente cinq million trois c ent mille) de dollars Am�ricains aupr�s d�une compagnie de s�curit� et ceci appartenait � mon p�re. Mon p�re �tait un polygame et depuis sa mort il y a des probl�mes � cause du partage de sa richesse et mes fr�res(de m�re diff�rente) faisaient tout pour s�asseoir sur les biens de mon p�re, d�o� ma d�cision de transf�rer ce fonds � un �tranger qui m�aidera pour son investissement dans une affaire lucrative � mon profit et � celui de mon petit fr�re, comme de m�me p�re et de m�me m�re et qui arrangera au ssi ma r�sidence dans son pays. Notez bien que ma famille n�est pas au courant de cette transaction, c�est uniquement vous et la compagnie de s�curit� et assurez-vous que cette transaction ne sera jamais sue par ma grande famille et les gens du Nigeria. J�ai d�cid� d�ex�cuter cette aff aire ici � Lom�-Togo d�o� ma r�sidence temporaire, pour des raisons de s�curit�s. Soyez inform� que toutes les modalit�s n�cessaire pour le transfert de ce fonds ont �t� parfaites et la transaction est � 100% de hors risque. D�ailleurs, les militaires sont rentr�s dans les casernes et le Nigeria a maintenant un gouvernement d�mocratiq ue. Vous �tes libres de m�informer dans votre r�ponse � cette lettre votre commission en pourcentage sur le montant total pour votre assistance. Notez tout de m�me que les 5% de la somme totale reste pour les d�penses pouvant �tre contract�es pour le pro cessus de la transaction. Contactez- moi et je vous donnerez l�image compl�te de ce projet. Dans l�attente de votre r�ponse rapide, veuillez agr�er l�__expression de mes sentiments les plus sincers. Ola ABIOLA

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Raylı Dolap Sistemleri
by raydoor 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

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Arrow syntax
by Nicolas Oury 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

Hello all, Is the experimental arrow syntax extension in ghc 6.01? Is it the same as with the preprocessor? Thanks. Best regards, Nicolas Oury

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