Unable to compile ghc from darcs

Simon Marlow marlowsd at gmail.com
Wed Apr 1 11:58:04 EDT 2009


Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>     Simon> Is it possible that you changed the exports of the GHC
>     Simon> module, perhaps? Haddock is complaining about a name class
>     Simon> with maybeParen from the GHC module, but I can't see how
>     Simon> maybeParen is exported from GHC, unless that's something
>     Simon> you changed.
> 
> Maybe by accident. How do I do a diff for ghc/ghc.cabal.in
> against the online repository?

darcs w ghc/ghc.cabal.in

that shows your local changes.

> If I search for maybeParen in the added modules, I can only find one
> occurrence, and that is in a commented-out functions.

start with 'darcs w' - I noticed you had a 1-line change to GHC.hs, what 
was that?  Also you had a local patch "Incorporated ESC/Haskell", perhaps 
that made some changes?

Cheers,
	Simon



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