I notice that the method for detecting the configuration of ghc (for building 'hmake') no longer works with 5.02. This must be the most unstable part of ghc - I've had to change it at 4.06, 4.08, 5.00, and now 5.02 as well!
> ghc-pkg-5.00 --show-package std --field import_dirs /usr/malcolm/local/lib/ghc-5.00/imports/std > ghc-pkg-5.02 --show-package std --field import_dirs $libdir/imports/std
There does not appear to be any way to persuade the new ghc-pkg to reveal what $libdir is set to. Can someone give me a clue how to discover this information?
Oh woe is me. Sorry about that - we went to some effort to make the package configuration independent of the installation location, in order to make various things less fragile. The installation location can be discovered on a Unix system by looking up the -B<dir> argument in the ghc script. On a Windows installation, you have to derive $libdir from the location of GHC itself. Perhaps it would be easier to have hmake just invoke 'ghc --make' under the hood? Cheers, Simon