Ian Collier writes:
>
..
>
> I had to add GhcHcOpts=-H12m to my build file to get it to stop complaining
> (12m was a guess, but the default of 6m was definitely too small). I would
> have thought this would have been added as necessary by the developers to
> avoid me having to increase the size globally - it's also not the sort of
> thing I would expect to know before starting the compilation.
>
The settings in the ghc/compiler Makefile should cope with 0.29
compiles *without* -O (on 32 bit machines). There's a known problem
with Time in ghc/lib, it needs a bigger heap than what it was given in
2.05 (-H12m instead of -H10m). If you compile with -O, there's
currently no way of automatically scaling these heap settings, I'm
afraid.
One general solution to this inconvenience would be to have an RTS
that could grow its heap upon exhaustion..
> Anyway...
>
> Question 1: Why doesn't "make check" do any tests?
>
The hooks are there, but we've yet to integrate any post-build system
checks into the distribution. If you manage to build the prelude and
system libraries, there's a fair chance that things are sane though.
>
> Question 2: Why doesn't "make install" install any docs?
>
No good reason, other than it being hard to second guess which types
of documentation you want installed by default - html, info, dvi ?
However, at the very least there should be support for controlling
this together with an install-docs target.
>
> Question 3: How do I even make the docs?
>
You'll have to give the doc target, e.g., 'make dvi', in the
directory containing the .lit files. (make sure the dependencies
were generated correctly during the initial `make boot').
Thanks for the feedback,
--Sigbjorn
