On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Isaac Jones wrote:

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Can anyone enlighten me as to the state of the ghc6 sparc distribution? The file on Hal's web page mentioned some time back is not the same file as on the GHC web page (I note that the filenames are different also).

Are any of them known to work if installed in a non-standard place?

Here at Chalmers we use the first shipped version (I believe this is the one on the GHC web page or an even earlier one...). I patched it myself, it was very easy. I expect that the version on Hal's web page should work since he said he fixed the bug.

Hal's version still has problems, I believe. He said that he will try to fix the problems soon.

The only thing that I don't like is that the dist isn't compiled with readline. It makes working in ghci a nightmare (I need to use backspace often...). The problem around this is in my opinion to make a Haskell98 compliant trimmed down readline library which doesn't depend on the c library. It shouldn't be too difficult. I don't expect that people are using the full power of readline anyway.

Making a working readline isn't that simple - you need to know something about the terminal properties for one, which means being able to use termcap or terminfo. Cheers, Simon