Re: yi doesn't run

2009-08-10 Thread Jean-Philippe Bernardy
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:59 PM, wrote: > > hiya, > first of all, i want to thank all of you guys, especially jeff wheeler, > jp and balazs. you've all proven great patience with me and always > answered contemporary. I think I can speak for everyone when stating that you're very welcome. > th

Re: yi doesn't run

2009-08-10 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Balazs Komuves wrote: > I updated the executable-path library on Hackage and also the darcs repo at > my homepage. > It should now work on FreeBSD, both old and new versions, though of course I > didn't test it > on different versions... It should also work on oth

Re: yi doesn't run

2009-08-10 Thread Jean-Philippe Bernardy
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Will Donnelly wrote: > > On Aug 10, 8:12 am, Jean-Philippe Bernardy > wrote: >> If you're interesting in testing Yi right now, you can bake in your >> configuration >> statically by using the "hacking" build. See the README file for how to >> proceed. > > Wasn't

Re: yi doesn't run

2009-08-10 Thread Will Donnelly
On Aug 10, 8:12 am, Jean-Philippe Bernardy wrote: > If you're interesting in testing Yi right now, you can bake in your > configuration > statically by using the "hacking" build. See the README file for how to > proceed. > > Cheers, > JP. Wasn't quite true. Even with the 'hacking' configuration

Re: yi doesn't run

2009-08-10 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Balazs Komuves wrote: > I'm working on the update (which is more general than Will's one, and also > has 0 dependencies > instead of 1), but still have no access to a working FreeBSD system, despite > many tries. It doesn't > help that the FreeBSD sysctl calls ar

Re: yi doesn't run

2009-08-10 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:57 AM, wrote: > interestingly, the dyre patch seems to fix mac os x issues, but not mine > (freebsd). I think executable-path needs to be upgraded before this will work. Will provided a modified BSD.hs in the other thread that probably fixes the problem, but Balazs wil

Re: yi doesn't run

2009-08-10 Thread Jean-Philippe Bernardy
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, wrote: > > hey there, > i tried to build yi with dyre 0.7.1 (that's were this behaviour > should've been patched, right?) but i still get that same error message: > > yi: /proc/1857/file: readSymbolicLink: does not exist (No such file or > directory) Thanks aga

Re: yi doesn't run

2009-08-08 Thread Will Donnelly
Well, I finally got BSD working. The actual code was every bit the breeze I expected it to be. This module has been verified to work correctly under FreeBSD 7.1, but integration with other code has not been tested. I am assuming that considering the simple nature of the code, the unchanged type si

Re: yi doesn't run

2009-08-08 Thread Will Donnelly
I'm rather interested in this fix as well. I have a FreeBSD virtual machine[1] running currently, with GHC 6.10.3 installed and working. I tried to install the Haskell platform, but (long story short) it required that I update all of my installed programs[2]. That's been going on since this mornin

Re: yi doesn't run

2009-08-08 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Balazs Komuves wrote: > I think I found the relevant sysctl call via google; however after that I > spent > all the day trying to install FreeBSD on a virtual machine, and while I'm > very > frustrated already, it's still not working... If you know someone who coul

Re: yi doesn't run

2009-08-08 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Balazs Komuves wrote: > Thanks for drawing my attention to this. I don't have a BSD install at hand, > thus, > as the documentation also says, the BSD/Solaris parts of the library are > untested. > > Do you know how to do it "correctly" on BSD? I have basically no

Re: yi doesn't run

2009-08-07 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Will Donnelly wrote: > Dyre doesn't use 'readSymbolicLink' directly, so if this issue is > coming from those parts of the code, I would hazard a guess that it's > an issue with the executable-path library[1]. This seems to be exactly right. The execute-file functi

Re: yi doesn't run

2009-08-07 Thread Will Donnelly
On Aug 7, 12:49 pm, Jeff Wheeler wrote: > >> yi: /proc/12661/file: readSymbolicLink: does not exist (No such file or > >> directory) > > I suspect this issue is related to Dyre, but I really don't understand it. > > Jeff Wheeler Dyre doesn't use 'readSymbolicLink' directly, so if this issue is c

Re: yi doesn't run

2009-08-07 Thread Jean-Philippe Bernardy
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:18 PM, wrote: > Btw: as of now, you need an invitation from some member of the mailing > list in order to subscribe to it using a non-gmail e-mail, which is > kinda strange. The setting says "anyone can join". I'm afraid I can't improve the situation very much. With "an

Re: yi doesn't run

2009-08-07 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Robin Green wrote: > I posted a patch to > simply require a newer version of cautious-file but I didn't see a commit message, > so I don't think it got applied. It was applied; that's why I had Phillip pull the latest patches (when I talked to him in the IRC chan

Re: yi doesn't run

2009-08-07 Thread Robin Green
2009/8/7 > > hi. > i'm using yi (darcs version of course) for like 1 1/2 weeks, and i noticed > today that i couldn't > create new files using C-x C-f (seems to be a known issue) I think this issue with *creating* files is my fault - sorry. You probably need to upgrade to the latest version of