Hsc2Hs/hGetContents encodings error (was: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.12.1 Release Candidate 2)

[Daniel Schüssler]

P.S.:

Locale is UTF-8, I guess hGetContents gets the default encoding from the 
locale now?



On Monday 23 November 2009 07:53:55 Daniel Schüssler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't think this is the same problem as the one mentioned by Alex
> (installing `network' works for me):
> 
> {----------------------------------------------
> $ cabal install X11
> 
> Resolving dependencies...
> Configuring X11-1.4.6.1...
> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-compiler
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> 
> [... configure stuff omitted...]
> 
> checking for X11/cursorfont.h... yes
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating config.mk
> config.status: creating X11.buildinfo
> config.status: creating include/HsX11Config.h
> config.status: creating include/X11_extras_config.h
> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-compiler
> Preprocessing library X11-1.4.6.1...
> hsc2hs: Graphics/X11/Xlib/Extras.hsc: hGetContents: invalid argument
>  (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character)
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> X11-1.4.6.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
> ExitFailure 1
> ----------------------------------------------}
> 
> 
> Converting the offending file (Extras.hsc) to UTF-8 manually solves it:
> 
> 
> {----------------------------------------------
> 
> $ file Extras.hsc
> Extras.hsc: ISO-8859 English text
> 
> $ <Extras.hsc iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF8 >temp
> $ mv temp Extras.hsc
> $ cd ../../..
> $ cabal install
> [OK]
> 
> ----------------------------------------------}
> 
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> Daniel
> 
> On Sunday 22 November 2009 18:53:07 Ian Lynagh wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We are pleased to announce the second release candidate for GHC 6.12.1:
> >
> >     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.12.1-rc2/
> >
> > As well as the source tarball:
> >     ghc-6.12.0.20091121-src.tar.bz2
> > there are installers for Windows (i386) and OS X (i386), and binary
> > distributions for x86_64/Linux and i386/Linux. For the Linux binary
> > distributions, the "linux-n" tarballs are recommended over the "linux"
> > tarballs.
> >
> >
> > Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them
> > before the release!
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ian, on behalf of the GHC team
> >
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