Re: [Hat] Problems getting started

On Tuesday, Jul 29, 2003, at 18:28 Europe/London, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

Thomas Davie writes:

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As from my previous mail to haskell-cafe I'm trying to get started working with a few haskell tools. I'm now trying to get hat to build, but hitting a problem while compiling.

The problems you are encountering with building Hat are largely due to the newer version of ghc (6.0) you are using. ghc-6.0 has some API changes in its Exception library. I have a workaround, but it turns out that fixing this one problem reveals several more issues with ghc-6.0, such as its stricter interpretation of some of the lexical rules of Haskell'98.

I do hope to find workarounds for all of the ghc-6.0 compatibility issues, but in the meantime, you may make better progress if you use an earlier stable release of ghc such as 5.04.3 on MacOS X (assuming such a beast exists).

Regards, Malcolm

Unfortunately having gone back to v5.04.3 I'm back to the readline errors. I've been trying the build option to link against the fink copy again but it still doesn't compile... I can't see a similar place in the config file to add the relevant commands: BUILDWITH=ghc BUILDOPTS=" -L/sw/lib/ -lreadline -I/sw/include/ -DUSE_READLINE=1" INSTALLVER="2.01" INSTALLINFO="config: powerpc-Darwin6/ by tatd100@nimbus2.rcp.co.uk on 30 Jul 2003" BUILDBASEDIR=/Users/tatd100/Desktop/project/hat-2.02/targets LIBCOMPAT="" EXE= CC=cc GHCSYM=504 TRUE=/usr/bin/true Any ideas on how to get hat to compile? Is it possible that hmake isn't working correctly because I compiled it with v6.0 of ghc and then went back to an older version of the frameworks? Thanks a lot Tom Davie