After applying any conceivable patch in this mailing list, ghc-2.05
built (almost) fine on our Linux- and HP-boxes. A few glitches:
* As usual, /tmp is much too small on our machines. The hints from
installing.lit:
The quickest way around it is \tr{setenv TMPDIR /usr/tmp} or
even \tr{setenv TMPDIR .} (or the equivalent incantation with the
shell of your choice).
The best way around it is to say
\begin{verbatim}
TMPDIR=<dir>
\end{verbatim}
in your @build.mk@ file.
But either way, that doesn't do the right thing: Setting TMPDIR
seems to be ignored during the compilation of ghc-2.05 (the
compilation log contains some "TMPDIR=/tmp; export TMPDIR; ..."
lines). Hacking config.mk permanently sets TMPDIR in the installed
ghc driver script. But having my personal ~/tmp being compiled in
isn't a very cunning plan (to use Baldrick's words... :-)
In a rare glimpse of ingenuity ;-) , I tried "make TMPDIR=~/tmp all",
which seems to work. Perhaps the docs and/or Makefiles need some
fine-tuning here.
* fptools/ghc/lib/cbits/timezone.h is a show-stopper again: On
Linux (and any other sensible OS, I presume), the type of timezone
is time_t. But @#$%&! HP-UX-10.20 thinks it's long. This should
better be figured out by configure. (I think I've mailed this
already somtime ago, but anyway...)
To share my happiness with others, I make the usual unofficial snapshots
available at
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/local/pms/ghc-2.05-all-i386-unknown-linux.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/local/pms/ghc-2.05-all-hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.tar.gz
this afternoon. Unpack at / and enjoy...
Some questions:
* What is this funny object-splitting all about? It seems to blow up
a 2Mb object file into hundreds of smaller object files, using
almost 30MB altogether!?
* I'd like to hear some success stories about booting ghc-2.05 with
itself, especially compiler/library size/speed.
* What's the schedule for porting Haggis to ghc-2.x-compliant code?
(Standard Haskell code would be even better. :-))
Up to now, one has the options of writing Ancient Haskell
(= ghc-0.2x code) or giving up the nice GUI stuff.
Sven "device full" Panne
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