I'm trying to build diverse packages from Hackage with ghc 6.8.1, they usually fail to build because of missing language extensions.
Sometimes I am unable to determine the proper name of the extension missing in .cabal I tend to slap {- #OPTIONS -fglasgow-exts #-} at the top of the troublesome file. It works, but out of curiosity, what is the downside of such an approach ? (bigger executables ?)
Can you list which packages failed to build out of the box?
-- Don
Well I'd say none of the packages I've tried, build out of the box, that include : haskelldb haskelldb-hdbc haskelldb-hdbc-sqlite3 HDBC HDBC-sqlite3 Agreed some of these compile right after tweeking the build-depends: and extensions: lines in the .cabal file (apart from the pesky PatternSignatures which require a LANGUAGE pragma in the source file) haskelldb-hdbc-sqlite3 is the one that I couldn't get past... I didn't bother with hsql-mysql-1.7 since Duncan Coutts mentioned it required significant work (and I cannot do much) Manu