reopen 410594
reassign 410594 ghc6 6.10.4-1
retitle 410594 GHC6 is not using libffi in Alpha
clone 540877 -1
reassign -1 ghc6 6.10.4-1
retitle -1 GHC6 is not using libffi in Alpha
merge 410594 -1
thanks

I asked about this bug in the glasgow-haskell-users list, and I got this
answer from Simon Marlow.  I'll do this test in alpha to check if I can
build either gtk2hs or haskell-curl.

Greetings.

------ Mensagem Reencaminhada ------
> De: Simon Marlow <[email protected]>
> Para: Duncan Coutts <[email protected]>
> Cc: Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva <[email protected]>,
> [email protected]
> Assunto: Re: [Fwd: Re: [Gtk2hs-devel] Help with build on Alpha]
> Data: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:42:17 +0100
> 
> On 18/10/2009 23:03, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 16:01 -0200, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote:
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> I sent a mail to gtk2hs-devel about this bug, and I'm forwarding it's
> >> response to here.
> >
> > This limitation might be different now that ghc is using libffi.
> 
> Wow, that's an ancient error message on an architecture I haven't used 
> in over 10 years :-)
> 
> It looks like we're not using libffi on Alpha at the moment.  If someone 
> with an Alpha would like to try building GHC with 
> UseLibFFIForAdjustors=YES in mk/build.mk and test whether it works, we 
> could change it over.

-- 
marcot
http://marcot.iaaeee.org/





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