[Yhc] Adding stuff to Prelude (was: Trying to compile Fudgets with Yhc...)

[Dimitry Golubovsky]

Hi,

Following up my own message about problems compiling Fudgets with Yhc.

An instance Functor Maybe was missing, and I tried to add it to
Prelude (where both Functor and Maybe are defined, to avoid orphan
instance issues). It turns out, every time Prelude.hs is recompiled,
its interface file is overwritten with one from bootstrap. What is the
purpose of this? I'd assume the opposite: if Prelude got recompiled,
the bootstrap interface has to be updated, so one getting a clean
distribution would have prelude interface intact. Is this an error in
SConscript? Or am I missing something?

For now, I just commented out three lines in SConscript responsible
for the yhc-base package compilation. The new instance is now visible.

I haven't committed this to the central repo; I'd like to get some
explanation of this first.

Thanks


On 1/10/07, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dimitry,
>
> Apparently there are problems with orphan instances, and perhaps
> passing -prelude when compiling the file with the instance in it will
> work. If that doesn't work email the list, since its probably an nhc
> issue originally.
-- 
Dimitry Golubovsky

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