id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc os architecture failure difficulty testcase blockedby blocking related 1622 Haskell program's standard output breaks down if piped through 'more' ghc@… "In earlier versions of GHC (up to 6.2 I remember) I could easily pipe stdout of Haskell programs through other Shell programs. But now various applications fail, especially piping through 'more'. ('less' makes no problems.) {{{ $ ghci ... Prelude> :! ls -al /usr/lib/ghc-6.4.1/ | more insgesamt 88869 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 2880 2006-09-03 12:13 . drwxr-xr-x 111 root root 35200 2006-10-28 18:21 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42808 2005-09-19 14:48 cgprof -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8701804 2005-09-19 14:48 ghc-6.4.1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 58773 2005-09-19 14:45 ghc-asm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 807 2005-09-19 14:45 ghci-usage.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 847628 2005-09-19 14:48 ghc-pkg.bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16886 2005-09-19 14:45 ghc-split -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2755 2005-09-19 14:45 ghc-usage.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72960 2005-09-19 14:45 HSbase_cbits.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4887418 2005-09-19 14:45 HSbase.o -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 538124 2005-09-19 14:48 hsc2hs-bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1381745 2005-09-19 14:45 HSCabal.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29942 2005-09-19 14:46 HSconcurrent.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1188121 2005-09-19 14:46 HSdata.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 493422 2005-09-19 14:46 HSfgl.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1516 2005-09-19 14:46 HSGLUT_cbits.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 673936 2005-09-19 14:46 HSGLUT.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8539 2005-09-19 14:45 HShaskell98.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1875175 2005-09-19 14:45 HShaskell-src.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 337126 2005-09-19 14:46 HSHGL.o Prelude> }}} There are much more files after HSHGL.o, but instead of the 'more?' prompt, the command stops. {{{ ~/haskell/htam$ ./Setup.lhs build 2>&1 | more Preprocessing library HTam-0.0... Preprocessing executables for HTam-0.0... Building HTam-0.0... Chasing modules from: ArbitraryRatio,Combinatorics,Combinatorics.BellNumbers,Com binatorics.Partitions,Combinatorics.TreeDepth,ContinuedFraction,DiscretizedFunct ion,BinaryCards,Election,Fractal,Resistor,RndBox,StableMarriage,Digits,Recursive Expression,SymbolicDifferentation,GNUPlot,ImageProcessing.PortableAnyMap,ImagePr ocessing.SubpixelAntialiasing,Interpolation.CubicSpline,Interpolation.DividedDif ference,Interpolation.NewtonPolynomial,Card,Cardinal,PeanoNumber,UnlimitedPrecis ion,NumberTheory,Numerics.DglEuler,Numerics.Differentiation,Numerics.Fourier,Num erics.Function,Numerics.Integration,Numerics.Mean,Numerics.Newton,Numerics.Norm, Numerics.ODEEuler,Numerics.PiPolygonal,Numerics.RegulaFalsi,Numerics.Root,Numeri cs.SecantMethod,Numerics.SpecialFunctions,Numerics.SpecialFunctionsSimple,Polyno mial,ArithSumSquare,DiceVanish,DistributedDots,Equation,NumberCircle,Owl,Periodi cSequence,SquarePair,SudokuWiki,Stochastic,CDFLifting,Useful Skipping Useful ( src/Useful.hs, dist/build/Useful.o ) Skipping Stochastic ( src/Stochastic.hs, dist/build/Stochastic.o ) Skipping SudokuWiki ( src/Riddle/SudokuWiki.hs, dist/build/SudokuWiki.o ) Skipping SquarePair ( src/Riddle/SquarePair.hs, dist/build/SquarePair.o ) Skipping DistributedDots ( src/Riddle/DistributedDots.hs, dist/build/Distribut edDots.o ) Skipping DiceVanish ( src/Riddle/DiceVanish.hs, dist/build/DiceVanish.o ) ~/haskell/htam$ }}} There are much more modules after DiceVanish, but the output stops silently. {{{ ~/haskell/htam$ darcs changes | more Sat Jul 29 14:27:34 CEST 2006 haskell@henning-thielemann.de * BinaryCards: latex output Tue Jun 20 16:50:46 CEST 2006 haskell@henning-thielemann.de * new module Numerics.Mean various means Wed Jun 7 19:20:38 CEST 2006 haskell@henning-thielemann.de * Setup: use Cabal's rawSystemVerbose instead of System.Cmd.rawSystem Wed Jun 7 19:18:23 CEST 2006 haskell@henning-thielemann.de * SquarePairs: added new solution based on List monad Wed Jun 7 19:17:44 CEST 2006 haskell@henning-thielemann.de * Useful: new iterateLimitM Sun Jun 4 17:05:25 CEST 2006 haskell@henning-thielemann.de * Useful: splitLast added Sun Jun 4 17:04:55 CEST 2006 haskell@henning-thielemann.de * Card, Cardinal: removed unnecessary checks for negativity Sun Jun 4 17:03:51 CEST 2006 haskell@henning-thielemann.de ~/haskell/htam$ }}} There are much more patches, but the output stops silently, again." bug closed normal libraries/base 6.4.1 fixed Linux x86 Unknown