Re: Hat bug report: hat 2.02 vs ghc 6.2
Malcolm Wallace <[email protected]> Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:00:49 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lang.haskell.hat |
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| Organization | Dept of Computer Science, University of York |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
> I tried building Hat 2.02-8 from sources on Debian Linux (testing)
> using ghc 6.2. It did not compile. I got the following error message:
>
> Hat/Foreign/ForeignPtr.hs:89:
> Variable not in scope: `Foreign.ForeignPtr.foreignPtrToPtr'
>
> Hat built OK when configured with "configure --buildwith=ghc5", though.
I don't know which patches have been applied to the Debian package.
I would suggest building from CVS for the best compatibility.
My nightly build uses both ghc-5.04.3 and ghc-6.2.1 and they compile
just fine. The repository is at cvs.haskell.org, in module hat.
Regards,
Malcolm