Re: building a cygwin aware GHC

2011-10-20 Thread Andy Koppe
On 20 October 2011 17:53, Nathan Thern wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> no experience on GHC and looking at the source, I am sure you need >> to cut through the source tree. >> Look also the aclocal.m4 ont only configure.ac > > Yep. > >> I noticed also wrong/obsolet

Re: building a cygwin aware GHC

2011-10-20 Thread Nathan Thern
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > no experience on GHC and looking at the source, I am sure you need > to cut through the source tree. > Look also the aclocal.m4 ont only configure.ac Yep. > I noticed also wrong/obsolete assumption around the code > > libraries/base/GHC/Con

Re: building a cygwin aware GHC

2011-10-20 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 10/20/2011 1:01 AM, Nathan Thern wrote: I am attempting (for probably the tenth time) to compile the GHC haskell compiler. The problem with GHC is that the windows version is compiled with MinGW, and cygwin is considered to be nothing other than a MinGW alternative. IOW, the source code is ri

Re: building a cygwin aware GHC

2011-10-20 Thread Nathan Thern
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Mark Geisert wrote: > Rather than using "the windows version" is there a Linux or Unix version you > could start with?  That path might be easier to get running under Cygwin. > > ..mark The source is unified. MinGW and Linux and Solaris builds all start with the s

Re: building a cygwin aware GHC

2011-10-19 Thread Mark Geisert
Nathan Thern writes: > The problem with GHC is that the windows version is compiled with > MinGW, and cygwin is considered to be nothing other than a MinGW > alternative. IOW, the source code is riddled with assumptions that if > you are building GHC with cygwin then what you want in the end is a >

building a cygwin aware GHC

2011-10-19 Thread Nathan Thern
I am attempting (for probably the tenth time) to compile the GHC haskell compiler. The problem with GHC is that the windows version is compiled with MinGW, and cygwin is considered to be nothing other than a MinGW alternative. IOW, the source code is riddled with assumptions that if you are buildi