HEADS UP: linker symbols changed, need to recompile

2014-08-05 Thread Edward Z . Yang
I've just pushed a set of patches which change the linker symbols GHC chooses for object files; you'll need to make clean and rebuild your tree once you take these changes. Thanks, Edward ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org

Re: Release building for Windows

2014-08-05 Thread Mark Lentczner
Seems to me that given the state of affairs, it is best to just leave it as it is this round: That is GHC is built split-obj, but the HP libs on Windows are not. In general, split-obj only makes executables smaller at the expense of link time and memory. It is a trade-off, and I'd make the call

last call... for HP 2014.2.0.0

2014-08-05 Thread Mark Lentczner
As it stands, I'm planning on calling the final RCs final: - RC2 Mac - RC4 Win - RC3 Src and linux-dist They have a few wibbles, but nothing close to show-stopping. I'll rebuild the web site and upload it tomorrow and announce then as well. - Mark (still on vacation) L.

Re: Interrupt interruptible foreign calls on HS exit

2014-08-05 Thread Edward Z . Yang
Hello Andreas, Yes, it seems that deleteAllThreads() is too late. The problem is that you need to defer the major GC until all the logical threads (now including interruptible FFI threads) have terminated themselves. This happens automatically for Haskell threads, because they are either (1)

Core Lint warnings

2014-08-05 Thread Gabor Greif
Hello all, I see *literally thousands* of these warnings (in yesterday's and) today's bootstraps: {{{ HC [stage 1] libraries/base/dist-install/build/GHC/Base.o *** Core Lint warnings : in result of Desugar (after optimization) *** {-# LINE 261 libraries/base/GHC/Base.lhs #-}: Warning: [RHS

Re: Haskell Platform 2014.2.0.0 Release Candidate 2

2014-08-05 Thread George Colpitts
Yes, as you stated, not an HP problem. I did a cabal update and got past this problem. I still can't install threadscope but I don't believe this is an HP platform problem so I'll follow up with the threadscope people and won't post again to this group Thanks [10 of 35] Compiling

Re: I'm going to disable DPH until someone starts maintaining it

2014-08-05 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Sounds good to me. Thanks, Geoff, for doing this! Manuel Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com: On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Geoffrey Mainland mainl...@apeiron.net wrote: I have patches for DPH that let it work with vector 0.11 as of a few months ago. I would be happy to submit them via