On 03 June 2004 15:56, Goran Topic wrote:

I am a newcomer to functional programming, and I would like to learn it very much. However, I'm also starting to deal with parallel programming, and I thought I'd combine my two interests.

So I grabbed the Debian ghc6 package (v6.2), and (after a lot of searching) found out that I lack the "mp" way. Then I tried grabbing the sources, and compiling them with WAYS=mp, but when the compiler is compiling the "mp" way, it does so with the -parallel switch, which requires the "mp" include files - the very ones I am trying to compile!

Now, several people tried telling me that GpH is a separate project, but 1) it's very out of date 2) ghc source has a ton of PVM references 3) the ghc user manual mentions parallel code ...so I kind of figured that GpH got integrated into ghc. The problem is that I just can't get it to run!

The parallel version of GHC is maintained by a separate group, the GPH project, and they do their own releases. There is old, non-working parallel code in the version of GHC we distribute (as you discovered). For the GPH project, go here: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~dsg/gph/ Cheers, Simon