ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.0
Sven Panne
Sven.Panne@informatik.uni-muenchen.de
Sat, 31 May 2003 15:27:42 +0200
Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> There is a strange error message in ghc-pkg-6.0, viz.
>
> $ ghc-pkg-6.0 --list-packages
> option `--list-packages' is ambiguous; could be one of:
> -l --list-packages List packages in all config files
> -L --list-packages-local List packages in the specified config file
>
> Hmm. Perhaps you should rename the long form of -L to --list-local-packages.
Just a small note: This was a buglet in System.Console.GetOpt.getOpt,
which has been fixed since GHC 5.04.3. Consequently this does not
happen if you use a GHC >= 5.04.3 for compiling GHC 6.0. But to be on
the safe side, SimonM has renamed the option, anyway...
Cheers,
S.