[cvs-nhc98] Legacy question

[Malcolm Wallace]

Sven Panne <Sven.Panne at aedion.de> writes:

> Hmmm, haskell.org claims that hbc 0.9999.5 implements Haskell 98, perhaps
> I should try to install it, supporting it would be nice then.

Well, the claim is just that, a claim.  I'm running

    $ hbc -v
    hbc Haskell98 version 0.9999.5b, 1999 Apr 02

but several of the standard libraries have foibles that require extra
#ifdefs to fix for hbc.  The build errors I'm getting at the moment are:

    Errors:
        "PackageConfig.hs", line 0, [89] Bad import specifier for: hPutStrLn

... from the entirely reasonable line: import IO (hPutStrLn) 
But also, more worryingly:

    /grp/haskell/lib/lmlc-ix86-Linux/lib/runtime.o(.text+0x8653):
        In function `openfile':
        /home/guest/linux-LML/runtime/file.c:239:
        `sys_errlist' is deprecated; use `strerror' or `strerror_r' instead

This one could be a mismatch due to upgrading Linux, which a re-compile
of hbc might sort out.  Except that I can no longer rebuild hbc.
Here is a sample of the errors I get building from Magnus' snapshot
of Feb 2003:

    In file included from amp.h:3,
                     from bignum.c:19:
    longlong.h:77:12: warning: multi-line string literals are deprecated
    longlong.h:83:12: warning: multi-line string literals are deprecated
    longlong.h:108:12: warning: multi-line string literals are deprecated

    mv -f prelo/*.o .
    mv: cannot stat `prelo/*.o': No such file or directory

    lib/lib_i.a(termcap_c.o)(.text+0x59): In function `MoveTo':
    /tmp/LML/lib/termcap_c.c:48: undefined reference to `tgoto'
    lib/lib_i.a(termcap_c.o)(.text+0x62):/tmp/LML/lib/termcap_c.c:48: undefined reference to `tputs'
    lib/lib_i.a(termcap_c.o)(.text+0xf3): In function `ClearScreen':
    /tmp/LML/lib/termcap_c.c:74: undefined reference to `tputs'
    lib/lib_i.a(termcap_c.o)(.text+0x11e): In function `Mytgetstr':
    /tmp/LML/lib/termcap_c.c:87: undefined reference to `tgetstr'
    lib/lib_i.a(termcap_c.o)(.text+0x17c): In function `GetTermCaps':
    /tmp/LML/lib/termcap_c.c:109: undefined reference to `tgetent'
    lib/lib_i.a(termcap_c.o)(.text+0x1df):/tmp/LML/lib/termcap_c.c:120: undefined reference to `tgetnum'
    lib/lib_i.a(termcap_c.o)(.text+0x1f0):/tmp/LML/lib/termcap_c.c:121: undefined reference to `tgetnum'


Regards,
    Malcolm