[jhc] almost to 0.8.0 - feedback welcome

[John Meacham]

When pulling from the repo you need DrIFT installed, the tarballs
don't need it though. I can make that message more informative...

The development.html page is only updated on a release from
docs/development.mkd, It would probably make more sense to have it
track the repository version rather than the current release. I'll see
about adding a cron job to fix that up.

I have a fix for the third issue done. will post it soon, in the
meantime you can find the call to qualifyInstMethod  in
src/FrontEnd/Rename.hs and just replace it and the hsDecls processing
for HsInstDecl with

 > hsDecls' <- rename hsDecls

to just do a full renaming of the declarations.

    John

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 4:28 PM, wren ng thornton <wren at freegeek.org> wrote:
> On 1/31/12 7:41 PM, John Meacham wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am happy to announce that we are almost upon the 0.8.0 release of
>> jhc, which has quite a few changes from the past so I was hoping I
>> could get some people to help test the newest darcs tree and give
>> feedback.
>
>
> So, I just pulled down a clean copy of the repo and tried to build it. So
> far I've run into the following build issues:
>
> * autoconf correctly identified that DrIFT wasn't installed, but then make
> ended up trying to call DrIFT anyways.
>
> * some package named HsSyck is specified when trying to compile jhc, though
> that's not listed in the required tools
> <http://repetae.net/computer/jhc/development.shtml> and isn't checked for
> during autoconf.
>
> * During `make libs` I get the following errors:
>
>    ...
>    [23 of 57] Jhc.Inst.Order
>    lib/jhc/Jhc/Inst/Order.hs:13  - Error: Unknown name: Jhc.Class.Ord.<
>    lib/jhc/Jhc/Inst/Order.hs:13  - Error: Unknown name: Jhc.Class.Ord.>
>    lib/jhc/Jhc/Inst/Order.hs:13  - Error: Unknown name: Jhc.Class.Ord.==
>    lib/jhc/Jhc/Inst/Order.hs:13  - Error: Unknown name: Jhc.Class.Ord./=
>    ...
>
> --
> Live well,
> ~wren
>
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