Hi, On 09/01/2016 12:58 AM, Thomas Tuegel wrote:
> If you're a Haskell user and run NixOS unstable or newer, by now you > have probably seen the message: > > "unable to decommit memory: Invalid argument" > > coming from GHC-built programs. The short version is, you need the > latest Linux kernel; try with > > boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_latest; > > in your configuration.nix. > > The long version of the story [1] is that Linux 4.5 added a feature > present in other Unixy systems for some time (MADV_FREE). The NixOS > default glibc is currently newer than that, so it advertises MADV_FREE > and GHC will use it. I guess we need to stop GHC from using it? We can't really have GHC not working on our default kernel :-) -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
