ghc5.02 can't read its own interface file.
Simon Peyton-Jones
simonpj at microsoft.com
Thu Oct 18 03:58:49 EDT 2001
| MainsimpleFormEx.hs:6:
| failed to load interface for `SimpleForm':
| Bad interface file: /home/ger/uni/htk/toolkit/SimpleForm.hi
| /home/ger/uni/htk/toolkit/SimpleForm.hi:155
| Interface file parse error; on input ` label '
|
| What is going on? I can send the complete .hi files for this
| project, but I'm not doing so here as it would bust
| haskell.org's 40k limit so delaying this extremely irritating
| bug from being reported and hopefully fixed. Is there a workaround?
There's an easy workaround: avoid type variable names like
'label' and other things that are sometimes keywords (e.g. with
-fglasgow-exts)
But your are right that it's a bug and we will fix it asap.
It's a pain that GHC has to deal with so many variations of itself!
Thanks for reporting it.
Simon
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