Happy generates uncompilable files

[Josef Svenningsson]

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Sigbjorn Finne wrote:

> Hi,
>
> couple of things:
>
> * you don't have to side-effect mk/config.mk{.in} to make
>    any changes to the definitions in there. Just create your own
>    mk/build.mk and add definitions of variables you need for
>    your build tree to work/behave as expected. The build.mk
>    defns override those in mk/config.mk
>
>    (see 5.3 of the GHC Building Guide for more).
>
*slapping the forehead* Yes, ofcourse.

> * the break you're seeing is due to the GHC native code generator
>    not being able to handle Int16-sized values internally. My suggested
>    fix for the problem you're running into would be not to change
>    the options given to Happy, but to GHC - i.e., have it generate code
>    via C  (==> add -fvia-C to rename/ParseIface_HC_OPTS and
>    parser/Parser_HC_OPTS in ghc/compiler/Makefile).
>
>    I've committed the latter fix.
>
I actually tried to do it but I guess I don't know my way around the
makefile system well enough yet.

Sorry for filling you mailboxes with stupid questions... But thanks anyway
for the fix!

Cheers,

	/Josef