bulat.ziganshin:
Hello Serge,
Saturday, September 29, 2007, 7:38:32 PM, you wrote:
Now, make configure reports
runghc Setup.hs configure --ghc --prefix=/home/mechvel/dm/1.06/dm/source/inst Configuring dumatel-1.6...
In 6.6.1, the report of runhaskell looked better, it wrote on the screen about ghc found in such and such place, and so on. Where to see this new report in a more detail?
while GHC developers sleeping/kissing/..., i will try to help you :)
first, it's entirely Cabal-related stuff. Setup.hs just runs cabal routines. in previous Cabal versions, "setup configure" printed a large amount of info about various compiling tools found. it was disappointing for new users especially when Cabal printed what he doesn't found some rather odd tools (which actually not required to build modern software). it seems that Cabal developers accepted suggestions to disable this report by default. sorry, i don't know how to enable it again, but believe that there is some way to do it. you should inspect Cabal docs, may be "runghc Setup.hs configure --help" or "runghc Setup.hs --help" will help
runhaskell Setup.hs configure -v will reenable verbose checking.
Dumatel/Prelude5.hs:28:17: Could not find module `Data.Map': it is a member of package containers-0.1, which is hidden
Should I change something in dm.cabal ? For example, it contains the line
build-depends: base, haskell98
add "containers" here :) in the 6.8, base lib was split to many smaller ones
Where are docs on ghc-6.8.1 (in particular, release notes) ?
it is not yet released :)))
but it's an chicken-and-egg problem and you, developers that try to ensure that 6.8 is ok with their problems, may ask Ian to prepare [premature version of release notes which will help to port programs. or we can start wiki page to help yourself, in hope that Ian will merge it contents in final release notes
how to port is already on a page: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Upgrading_packages once this is filled out, it could be in the release notes. -- Don