[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: jhc-0.8.1

[John Meacham]

I modified it so all packages depended on are listed in only a single
spot in the configuration to make it easier to change and give much
better error messages. see the new
http://repetae.net/repos/jhc/configure.ac and the NEEDS_PACKAGE
macros.

Possibly existing instances are pretty easy to work around, see
USE_MONOID_DOC in the config file. I'll make the show instance for
identity conditionally defined too, since that seems to be floating
around. Having to specify specific versions in the script would be
hacky, much better to actually identify the reasons for
incompatibility and choose based on that.

    John

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Krzysztof Skrzętnicki
<gtener at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, I'll give it a try, thanks!
> As for the other errors for sure there is missing Binary instance for strict
> ByteStrings in newest binary package.
> Another one is instance for Show (Identity a) which in turn needed to be
> commented out because it appeared in newer version of some other package,
> don't know which one.
> Lastly I get a lot of errors caused by mixing library versions. I *think*
> that the problem is that, unlike Cabal, the Makefile specifies -package foo
> without specific versions. The result is that, given the fact that I have
> more than 1 version of many libraries installed, it tries to build with two
> different versions of same library, or so would it seem: 1 is dependency of
> other library, the other is from -package specification. I think this is the
> case.
> This is why I asked for specific versions of all the libraries involved. The
> idea was to simply specify *all* of them on command line and/or Makefile.
>
> Right now I don't have time to replicate the errors, but I will try again
> building jhc later.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:09 AM, John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, there was a bug in the way it detected editline/readline which
>> has been fixed in the repo.
>>
>> You can run configure with --disable-line to work around it. or change
>> the word USE_NOLINE to USE_READLINE in src/Util/Interact.hs
>>
>> always some silly typo that works its way in somewhere. I should stop
>> the version number shift and declare it 1.0.0 and use the third digit
>> for actual point releases rather than keep the perpetual 0.x.y wasting
>> the first digit. but then I can't hide behind the 'beta' shield
>> anymore. :)
>>
>>     John
>>
>> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Jens Petersen
>> <juhp at community.haskell.org> wrote:
>> > Thank you for the new release. :)
>> >
>> > On 13 May 2014 04:40, John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> as for the packages i've been testing with
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> fgl,regex-compat,bytestring,binary,mtl,containers,unix,utf8-string,zlib,HsSyck,filepath,process,syb,old-time,pretty.
>> >
>> >
>> > and editline ?
>> >
>> > For me it fails to build on Fedora 20 with the readline package but
>> > completes with editline.
>> >
>> > Krzysztof: maybe try removing or hiding the readline package or posting
>> > your
>> > build error. :)
>> >
>> > Jens
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> John Meacham - http://notanumber.net/
>
>



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