[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-Cafe Digest, Vol 51, Issue 180

[Don Stewart]

emmanuel.delaborde:
> >>
> >>I'm trying to build diverse packages from Hackage with ghc 6.8.1,
> >>they usually fail to build because of missing language extensions.
> >>
> >>Sometimes I am unable to determine the proper name of the extension
> >>missing in .cabal
> >>I tend to slap {- #OPTIONS -fglasgow-exts #-} at the top of the
> >>troublesome file.
> >>It works, but out of curiosity, what is the downside of such an
> >>approach ? (bigger executables ?)
> >
> >Can you list which packages failed to build out of the box?
> >
> > -- Don
> >
> 
> 
> Well I'd say none of the packages I've tried, build out of the box,  
> that include :
> 
> haskelldb
> haskelldb-hdbc
> haskelldb-hdbc-sqlite3
> HDBC
> HDBC-sqlite3
> 
> Agreed some of these compile right after tweeking the build-depends:  
> and extensions: lines in the .cabal file
> (apart from the pesky PatternSignatures which require a LANGUAGE  
> pragma in the source file)
> 
> haskelldb-hdbc-sqlite3 is the one that I couldn't get past...
> 
> I didn't bother with hsql-mysql-1.7 since Duncan Coutts mentioned it  
> required significant work (and I cannot do much)

Please contact the maintainers of these larger database bindings to get
them updated for the new release. (Its possible the authors haven't yet
attempted the update, that its hard, or they just forgot).

-- Don