Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-02-01 Thread Lars Viklund
going to fix themselves when you migrate. * When testing the conversion, make sure to look at more than HEAD and branch-tips. -- Lars Viklund | z...@acc.umu.se ___ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc

Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-25 Thread Lars Viklund
ut submodules vs. subtrees for tracking other projects. A subtree seems to be a way of getting the contents of a branch merged at a non-root location. It might be a relevant read and something to evaluate. http://progit.org/book/ch6-7.html -- Lars Viklund | z...@acc.umu.se _

Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-10 Thread Lars Viklund
e existing toolchains used with GHC, something which I'm unsure if it's solvable as Git has a horrible tendency to rely on having shell tools to do its ill deeds. As for whether to change or not, I'm neutral as I'm not a contributor nor have any plans to be. -- Lars Viklund | z.

Re: [patch] Do not call bash but sh in the "boot" script

2010-04-11 Thread Lars Viklund
> used for running "boot-pkgs" which has a shebang line referring to sh > > only (i.e. it is not a bash script). In my opinion, bash should be > > omitted for portability reasons. Of course, bash is ported to > > FreeBSD, but because i

Source snapshots and windows builds missing?

2010-01-29 Thread Lars Viklund
There seems to be a lack of source snapshots (and window builds) at http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/ which is linked from the download page. The last of those seems to be from January 8th, which is a bit too long to be a transient error. -- Lars Viklund | z...@acc.umu.se

Re: Windows DLLs should be working.

2010-01-10 Thread Lars Viklund
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 05:31:58AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 05:31:46AM +0100, Lars Viklund wrote: > > > If you want to get this working with COM, then building an assembly > > > out of the DLLs is probably mandatory. So that's lookin

Re: Windows DLLs should be working.

2010-01-10 Thread Lars Viklund
not have administrative priviledges. If it turns out it's impossible to install a private GHC into a directory you have rights to, I would consider that a major regression. -- Lars Viklund | z...@acc.umu.se | 070-310 47 07 ___ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc

Re: rpath for shared libraries

2009-12-31 Thread Lars Viklund
ould still be needed for people (like me) who do not install into system-global directories but rather somewhere in ${HOME}, wouldn't it? Heck, I've got systems where not even /usr/local/lib is in relevant lookup paths. -- Lars Viklund | z...@acc.umu.se | 070-310 47 07 ___ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc