[Hat] Problems getting started

[Thomas Davie]

On Tuesday, Jul 29, 2003, at 18:28 Europe/London, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

> Thomas Davie <tatd100@cs.york.ac.uk> writes:
>
>>    As from my previous mail to haskell-cafe I'm trying to get started
>> working with a few haskell tools.  I'm now trying to get hat to build,
>> but hitting a problem while compiling.
>
> The problems you are encountering with building Hat are largely due
> to the newer version of ghc (6.0) you are using.  ghc-6.0 has some
> API changes in its Exception library.  I have a workaround, but it
> turns out that fixing this one problem reveals several more issues
> with ghc-6.0, such as its stricter interpretation of some of the
> lexical rules of Haskell'98.
>
> I do hope to find workarounds for all of the ghc-6.0 compatibility
> issues, but in the meantime, you may make better progress if you use
> an earlier stable release of ghc such as 5.04.3 on MacOS X (assuming
> such a beast exists).
>
> Regards,
>     Malcolm

Unfortunately having gone back to v5.04.3 I'm back to the readline 
errors.
I've been trying the build option to link against the fink copy again 
but it still doesn't compile... I can't see a similar place in the 
config file to add the relevant commands:

BUILDWITH=ghc
BUILDOPTS=" -L/sw/lib/ -lreadline -I/sw/include/ -DUSE_READLINE=1"
INSTALLVER="2.01"
INSTALLINFO="config: powerpc-Darwin6/ by tatd100@nimbus2.rcp.co.uk on 
30 Jul 2003"
BUILDBASEDIR=/Users/tatd100/Desktop/project/hat-2.02/targets
LIBCOMPAT=""
EXE=
CC=cc
GHCSYM=504
TRUE=/usr/bin/true

Any ideas on how to get hat to compile? Is it possible that hmake isn't 
working correctly because I compiled it with v6.0 of ghc and then went 
back to an older version of the frameworks?

Thanks a lot

Tom Davie