[Gtk2hs-devel] darcs patch: alternative Binary instance for Integer ... (and 1 more)

[Bertram F. <ber...@go...>]

Hi,

here are two patches that allow gtk2hs to be compiled with the upcoming
ghc 6.10.

There are two relevant changes:

  1) the constructors of Integer are no longer exported from GHC.Base
     so the Binary instance can't use them.

     (update: integer-gmp now has an Integer.Internals module that
     exports the constructors again. The patch below does not use
     them.)

  2) base-4 has a new exception system, and there is a compatibility
     package, base-3.0.3.0.
     With the second patch below, gtk2hs is built with the compat
     package.

I've checked that gtk2hs still builds on ghc 6.4.2, 6.6.1 and 6.8.3
as well, excluding sourceview, gnomevfs and gstreamer.

enjoy,

Bertram

Tue Apr 15 03:48:10 CEST 2008  Bertram Felgenhauer <in...@gm...>
  * alternative Binary instance for Integer - fix build with ghc 6.9.20080414
  Integer is now implemented in GHC.Integer and its constructors are no longer exported.

Fri Sep 26 01:13:23 CEST 2008  Bertram Felgenhauer <in...@gm...>
  * add Autoconf check for precise name of base package.
  Only look for base package < 4. This allows gtk2hs to be built on ghc 6.10.