[jhc] trouble with jhc 0.7.1

John Meacham john at repetae.net
Thu Aug 27 18:44:55 EDT 2009


On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:08:56AM -0700, Taral wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:47 AM, John Meacham<john at repetae.net> wrote:
> > That is really strange. I am using the same haskell version of zlib as
> > you, I thought the gz format it compress/decompressed to was pretty
> > standard. What version of the C zlib library do you have? I have
> > version 1.2.3 on my machine I used to build the hl file.
> 
> zlib != gzip. gzip adds some extra stuff.

Yes, but I use the Code.Compression.GZip method of compression that
haskell zlib defines and is gzip compatible. It is defined by an RFC, so
I am not sure why one system would fail at decoding what another
encoded... hmm...

        John

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