[jhc] [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: jhc-0.8.1

Tue May 13 13:01:36 UTC 2014

Just pushed a patch that will only create the show identity instance
if it is missing. If you could test it, that would be great. I assumed
if it existed it would come from Control.Monad.Identity, perhaps that
is not true though. Also fixed some other #ifdefs that depended on GHC
version numbers to use proper HS_HAS_INSTANCE checks.

The docs for development mention the requirements for using the darcs tree.

http://repetae.net/computer/jhc/development.shtml

the prerequisites are a little out of date though. that doc is part of
the repo in docs/development.mkd

   John

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:43 AM, John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:
> autoreconf -i
>
> -i installs anything needed that is missing.
>
>     John
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 4:06 AM, Krzysztof Skrzętnicki <gtener at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I tried to compile from darcs repo, however I am unable to even run
>> ./configure. 'autoreconf' returns an error:
>>
>> autoreconf
>> configure.ac:17: error: required file 'ac-macros/compile' not found
>> configure.ac:17:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'compile'
>> configure.ac:13: error: required file 'ac-macros/config.guess' not found
>> configure.ac:13:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'config.guess'
>> configure.ac:13: error: required file 'ac-macros/config.sub' not found
>> configure.ac:13:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'config.sub'
>> configure.ac:5: error: required file 'ac-macros/install-sh' not found
>> configure.ac:5:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'install-sh'
>> configure.ac:5: error: required file 'ac-macros/missing' not found
>> configure.ac:5:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'missing'
>> parallel-tests: error: required file 'ac-macros/test-driver' not found
>> parallel-tests:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'test-driver'
>> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
>>
>> I don't know how to proceed.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:56 AM, John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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/
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> John Meacham - http://notanumber.net/
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> John Meacham - http://notanumber.net/

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