[nhc-bugs] hi Problems

[Malcolm Wallace]

> I'm pleased to report that rebuilding (using the nhc98 I had previously
> built with gcc) created a working executable.

Glad to hear it.

> You might need to modify the build rules such that hi does not function
> unless built with a true Haskell compiler.  This is probably due to some
> kind of interaction between the version of gcc, libc, etc., on the
> system.

My guess is that it might be due to old C files in the distribution -
perhaps we failed to completely re-generate them from scratch, as
we should have done.

> I'll verify on Linux, but I suspect the result will be the same.

I have just checked the .tar.gz package from the web on my Linux
machine, and it does indeed display this problem.  (Sorry that I
didn't spot this earlier - I had checked the current CVS rather
than the released version.)

This means we will need to produce a new, corrected, distribution
package quite soon.  We will probably bump the version number again
at the same time, since there are other bugfixes that can be usefully
incorporated.

Regards,
    Malcolm