On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:59:26PM +1100, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
> 
> This is a bad patch (maybe in conjunction with "Rewrite fixTvSubstEnv  
> so it iteratively applies its substition").  The patch goes through  
> validate, but it breaks builds using the "devel1" scheme defined in  
> build.mk.sample.  This might be due to the different optimisation  
> settings, but I'd rather think it is due to -DDEBUG in devel1.  The  
> way it breaks is that if you compile with devel1, the stage 1 compiler  
> builds fine, but when the stage 1 compiler attempts to compiler base,  
> the simplifier loops on the first module (i.e., GHC/Base.lhs).

Thanks Manuel; looks like it's actually just /extremely/ slow at, at
least, deriving. I'll look into it.


Thanks
Ian

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