Installing syb(-0.1.03) package in head version of Haskell

[Simon Marlow]

On 24/02/2010 14:08, Christian Maeder wrote:
> Simon Marlow schrieb:
>> On 24/02/2010 12:28, Christian Maeder wrote:
> [...]
>>> It is not sufficient for me to reinstall this package with this utf8
>>> setting. (I think ghc-pkg needs to be fixed or maybe recompiled under
>>> utf8.)
>>
>> There was a missing hSetEncoding, so that ghc-pkg is writing this file
>> using the current locale rather than UTF-8, but reading it back as
>> UTF-8.  So I'm surprised that temporarily setting your locale to UTF-8
>> doesn't work around it - what happens?
>
> No idea, the last step of installing is:
>
> Registering syb-0.1.0.3...
> /local/maeder/bin/ghc-pkg update - --global --no-user-package-conf -v2
>
> The standard input passed to ghc-pkg is utf8 coded (independent of my
> LANG setting), but the output file written
> syb-0.1.0.3-2d8f18fd3343792a85816b191d973cea.conf is always ISO-8859.
>
> HTH Christian

It does, thanks.  I now realise that the code is using binary mode 
accidentally, in fact it has an instance of this bug

   http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3832

because ghc-pkg contains a copy of the code of openTempFile.  I'll fix 
it to use openTempFileWithDefaultPermissions, which does the right thing.

Cheers,
	Simon