Error messages from runhugs

[Sigbjorn Finne]

Fixed now, I believe - the handling of this part. error condition
is same as it ever was (poor), but at least the CVS contents
now avoids running into it.

hth
--sigbjorn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alastair David Reid" <reid@cs.utah.edu>
To: <hugs-bugs@haskell.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:00
Subject: Error messages from runhugs


>
> The error messages from runhugs seem to have gotten much worse in the
> version in the repository.
>
> Using old runhugs, we get:
>
>   /usr/bin/runhugs -98 +o ADL3 test
>   runhugs: Error occurred
>   Reading file "ADL3.lhs":
>   Reading file "/usr/share/hugs98/lib/System.hs":
>   Reading file "Parsec":
>   ERROR Parsec - Unable to open file "Parsec"
>
> Ooops, I guess I should put Parsec on my path.
>
>
> Using the version in the CVS repository, we get:
>
>   $HOME/local/bin/runhugs -98 +o ADL3 test
>   runhugs: Unable to initialise Hugs
>
> Gee, I'm not sure what I did wrong.
>
>
> Any chance the informative error messages can be restored?
>
> It's possible that you want to suppress the error message sometimes -
> so that people don't get Haskell-related error messages when using my
> super-duper Haskell version of cat or ls.
>
> That's cool - but there has to be a way to print the error message so
> that I can debug it.  I am completely baffled by the above error
> message and have tried adding random things to my path, adding and
> removing .lhs from the filename, etc. - all to no avail.
>
> --
> Alastair Reid        reid@cs.utah.edu        http://www.cs.utah.edu/~reid/