[jhc] failure with precompiled libs?

[John Meacham]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:35:23PM -0800, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:12:28PM -0800, John Meacham wrote:
> > In general, I try to keep the libraries compatable with the last
> > 'tagged' version of the repository, if that is not the case, then I need
> > to fix it. It very well might be broken at the moment, as I recently
> > switched to using the new Data.Binary serialization library and using
> > zlib for compression, so 
> 
> Nice to know.  I didn't get that impression from the libraries page - it
> might be a good idea to add a note "the libraries are intended for use
> with the latest tag".

in general, it isn't an issue unless I am actively changing the library
format. I am in the progress of migrating to the new Data.Binary so have
been modifying the format. 


> stefan at stefans:/usr/local/src/jhc$ ./jhc --noauto -Llib/base -Llib/haskell98 -flint -v test/HelloWorld.hs
> jhc --noauto -Llib/base -Llib/haskell98 -flint -v test/HelloWorld.hs
> Compiling ["test/HelloWorld.hs"]
> Loading libraries: []
> Found dependency: test/HelloWorld.hs at test/HelloWorld.hs
> Error: Module not found: Jhc.Prim
> stefan at stefans:/usr/local/src/jhc$
> 
> Adding -Llib/jhc does not help, nor does find . -name *.ho -delete.

oh. silly me I meant

--noauto -ilib/base -ilib/haskell98

sorry about that.

> I suppose I should also mention that when I ^C'd and restarted the library
> build (to change RTS options - turns out I don't have enough RAM to build the
> libraries without +RTS -c, and even with it's a tight squeeze), Jhc found existing
> .ho files, skipped most of the messages, ground for a few minutes, and bombed out
> with a Handle-misuse related error (which I unfortunately cannot remember).

Yeah, the handle misuse error is an annoying bug where ghc will close
the stdout handle before the exception handler has a chance to say what
went wrong.

> Is this another known infelicity?

Could be. I'll investigate.

        John

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