sync-all doesn't

2012-11-28 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
I tried building GHC on a new dev box this afternoon, and the initial "sync-all get" is very unreliable. Here's the typical pattern: Cloning into 'libraries/terminfo'... Clone of 'http://darcs.haskell.org/libraries/terminfo.git/' into submodule path 'libraries/terminfo' failed git failed: 256 at

Re: deprecating

2012-10-23 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > Dear maintainers of > > bytestring > > cabal > > vector > > time > > dph > Hi, Simon - How did you come up with this list? It is missing the vast majority of users of Rank2Types. Most people embed languag

Re: deprecating

2012-10-22 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > But if the will of the masses is to silently and forever make > Rank2Types=RankNtypes (documented of course), that's ok with me. It just > seems odd. I thought that's what deprecation was *for*. > An alternative would be to have a mec

Re: deprecating

2012-10-22 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > Do you mean “silently and forever”? > I think that's what I mean, yes. As Johan notes, many of us run our continuous builds of our packages with -Wall -Werror in order to keep them as clean as possible. Introducing a deprecation thus

Re: Change GHC to use clang on OSX as the assembler driver

2011-11-03 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Thomas Schilling wrote: > I think Bryan O'Sullivan > recently reported having issues after upgrading to 10.7 as well. My problems have been firmware-related, so don't worry on that score. It seems pretty clear that in order to get working 10.7 s

Re: GHC Libraries

2011-08-03 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:37 PM, David Terei wrote: > These packages are unmaintained: > > Win32Volunteer needed > xhtmlVolunteer needed > I can take over the Win32 package. ___ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mai

Re: old-locale

2011-05-22 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Ashley Yakeley wrote: > > You say "old-locale" is maintained only for backward compatibility. Could > you clarify? What should be used instead? The "time" package depends on > old-locale. We don't have an alternative at the moment, but I believe the point is tha

Re: [PATCH] Better encoding/decoding for GHC

2011-05-18 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:36 AM, Max Bolingbroke wrote: > > Aha! You go out of your way to detect and replace them. Interesting! > Yes, and necessary, as otherwise text is open to data corruption. ___ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www

Re: [PATCH] Better encoding/decoding for GHC

2011-05-17 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Max Bolingbroke wrote: > This is a key point - I wonder whether you have in mind a particular > bit of code using the "text" package that will fail if we use lone > surrogates as escapes? > Any attempt to pack a String into a Text will replace UTF-16 surrogates w

Re: [PATCH] Better encoding/decoding for GHC

2011-04-12 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Max Bolingbroke wrote: > a) When decoding a byte sequence to a String (which in GHC is > typically a sequence of 16-bit values representing a UTF-16 encoded > Unicode string), any bytes in the input which are undecodable are > represented in the String as a unico

Re: Mercurial? Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-10 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Pavel Perikov wrote: > Please please consider Mercurial if migration from darcs is inevitable :) > For what it's worth, Mercurial generally interoperates quite well with git and github, using the hg-git plugin. As a longtime Mercurial user and an occasional GHC c

Re: HEAD stage1 fails to build for me

2010-06-07 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > This is with a fresh checkout. > Red herring. I reinstalled GHC and rebuilt from a clean HEAD, and the problem went away. ___ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www.

HEAD stage1 fails to build for me

2010-06-07 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
This is with a fresh checkout. Here's the error I get (x86_64, Fedora 13): ghc/stage1/build/Main.o: In function `saXe_info': (.text+0xff83): undefined reference to `__stginit_filepathzm1zi1zi0zi4_SystemziFilePath_' ghc/stage1/build/Main.o: In function `s9bn_info': (.text+0xee1): undefined referenc

Re: make has restarted 3 times

2010-05-10 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > This ‘make has restarted 3 times’ has happened a few times to me > recently. Restarting makes it go away. > It happens consistently on OS X, where restarting unfortunately doesn't help. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4050

Re: Validate fails for HEAD on OS X

2009-03-19 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Manuel M T Chakravarty < c...@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote: > The comment above setThreadAffinity() says, > > // Schedules the thread to run on CPU n of m. m may be less than the >> // number of physical CPUs, in which case, the thread will be allowed >> // to run on

Re: HEAD does not validate on OS X

2009-03-14 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Manuel M T Chakravarty < c...@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote: > Compiling the latest HEAD on OS X, I get > > RtsFlags.c: In function 'setupRtsFlags': > > RtsFlags.c:1150:0: > error: '_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF' undeclared (first use in this function) > Hmm. That should be u

Re: FW: darcs patch: Add extern flag to avoid multiple symbolerrors on Mac...

2008-09-07 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Claus Reinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Starting from a fresh tree everytime or searching for files manually don't > sound realistic [...] If you're trying to do an ab initio build with no prior build products lying around, then starting from a fresh tree should

Re: darcs and ghc..

2008-08-13 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Claus Reinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The earlier we start collecting _concrete_ instances of such silent > command failures, the better. Unfortunately, I can't remember what I was doing at the time, as this occurred a few months ago.

Re: darcs and ghc..

2008-08-12 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Claus Reinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Much as I'd have liked to advocate darcs 2 over git for ghc, I > couldn't really have justified that until the little bugs are known to > be fixed. A number of git commands are implemented as crufty shell scripts that don'

Re: GHC.Conc - epoll event loop and circular dependencies

2008-02-15 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
Bryan Donlan wrote: > Are you referring to the "Unifying events and threads" paper? Yes, but more specifically to the addendum to the thesis proposal. > I'll > take a look a bit later tonight. Is there a recommended place to > contact this GHC HQ other than this cvs-ghc list? No, I just wanted

Re: GHC.Conc - epoll event loop and circular dependencies

2008-02-15 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
Bryan Donlan wrote: > As such, initially I'd like to focus my efforts on generalizing the > infastructure to support more than one IO manager per platform, and > implementing epoll as an initial test. This would be great to have, but you might be overlapping with work that Peng Li has been planni

Re: License in the Mac installer

2008-02-12 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: > By all means get legal advice. > > However, I am curious, what exactly is it in my reasoning that you do > not agree with? Essentially, that it is possible to combine GPL and BSD works and distribute the combined result under the BSD license. > PS: Once the new e

Re: License in the Mac installer

2008-02-12 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: > By offering GHC under BSD3, we do allow people to distribute > it under the GPL and hence fullfil our obligations under the GPL (which > we incurred by linking - in whatever way - against readline). Does that > clarify the point? I believe that this claim is not a

Darcs vs alternatives

2007-11-26 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
Hi, all - Simon Marlow mentioned that there's been a discussion unfolding regarding switching ghc away from darcs. I thought I'd add a few comments from the perspective of someone who has used all of darcs, Mercurial and git. The most immediately visible difference between darcs and the oth

Re: Build fails again

2007-06-29 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
Simon Marlow wrote: Could this be a problem introduced by the IPV6 changes to the network package, perhaps? (and not a build system issue, as I first thought). Bryan - any thoughts? This is a PPC/MacOS X build. It seems to be an oddity with OS X. Here's a well-timed patch that Thomas Schi