On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:33 PM, John Meacham
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 04:01:53PM -0500, Antoine Latter wrote:
* running DrIFT on src/E/TypeCheck.hs fails with an illegal bytesequence in hGetContents. I'm guessing that this is only an issue when building DrIFT with GHC 6.12+, and that the file contains bytes illegal in UTF8. I deleted everything funny looking in the file and then it went smooth
Hi, are you compiling from the tarball or the darcs repository? the tarball shouldn't require DrIFT to be installed. I had not tested DrIFT with 6.12 but that file should be in UTF8. Hmm... on OSX, is the default locale a UTF8 one? does ghc 6.12 properly encode to/from utf8 on it by defualt? could you check, I don't have a mac handy.
Okay, I was using a third-party terminal app for which I don't know how to make print out UTF8. Things are better if I use a different one. I was going to look in to how to make DrIFT read and write UTF8 regardless of locale, but the IO layer for DrIFT is surprisingly complex, so never mind that. Now compiling with jhc I end up with: hs.out_code.c:85:2: error: #error Could not determine Byte Order Attached is a patch which fixes this for me, although I only have a Mac to test it on. Antoine