Hi ppl, i thought i would add some comments, being a Gentoo user: On Wed, 19 May 2004 03:38 am, Andres Loeh wrote:
I have a ghc-cvs ebuild for personal use which I can share. http://dev.gentoo.org/~kosmikus/ghc-cvs-6.3.ebuild You can download the ebuild, place it in your local portage overlay, for instance in /usr/local/dev-lang/ghc, create a digest, and then emerge it to build an up-to-date ghc from cvs.
groovy, ta. I have my own shell scripts as well, to automate the build process from CVS, but this may make things even easier. The Gentoo ebuild system is excellent.
There's a small problem even then: Just a few days ago, I wanted to test HOpenGL for something and noticed the following (which happens both with the CVS version and with 6.2.1):
$ ghci-cvs -package OpenGL ___ ___ _ / _ \ /\ /\/ __(_) / /_\// /_/ / / | | GHC Interactive, version 6.3, for Haskell 98. / /_\\/ __ / /___| | http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ \____/\/ /_/\____/|_| Type :? for help.
Loading package base ... linking ... done. Loading package OpenGL ... ghc-6.3: can't load .so/.DLL for: GLU (/usr/lib/libGLU.so: undefined symbol: glPixelStorei)
I recently built GHC CVS on my Gentoo linux and I did have problems which i think were with the hopengl if i recall correctly. i also had problems with objectio, either in the snapshot or CVS or both, but the build was fine when objectio was not enabled. BUT, the ghc-6.3.20040504 CVS snapshot was OK. It compiles HopenGL apps fine, eg the glxgears app that was recently posted on this list. I havent tried running any HopenGL apps with the ghci from that snapshot tho. It is a shame the Redbook examples have not yet been modified also, to suit the new GHC package inclusion syntax tho :( I will run those tests that Svenne suggested and post my results, both for the ghc-6.3.20040504 CVS snapshot and the latest CVS. But not tonight. cheers, John