Re: Problem building on NetBSD Alpha - Dynamic link dependency?

2008-01-14 Thread jb162
Thanks. I also needed to make gmp on the target. Would this generally be true as I think it would? I tried to update the wiki but don't have privileges. Jim On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 23:25 +0100, Matthias Kilian wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 11:06:57AM +, Jim Burton wrote: In file included

Problem building on host machine when trying to cross-compile an unregistered build

2008-01-14 Thread jb162
Hi, host machine is Linux i386 and the target is NetBSD alpha, ghc 6.8.2. With the help of the list the first part (on the target) is done and I'm building the compiler on the host -- when building rts I get cc1: error: unrecognized command line option -mieee What's this about? (I notice a

GHC Internals Changed

2008-01-14 Thread C.M.Brown
Hi, It seems that GHC's API interface has changed between 6.6 and 6.8. Most notably, JustTypecheck and GHC.dropForAlls are no longer in scope. Are the changes documented anywhere? The notes on the hackage commentary still seem to point to the previous API internals.

Re: can't build plugins-1.0 with ghc-6.9

2008-01-14 Thread Valery V. Vorotyntsev
valery.vv: [...] My quest is to install lambdabot (for the sake of offline [EMAIL PROTECTED]' and [EMAIL PROTECTED]' commands), and the one depends on `plugins'. [...] 2) it doesn't build with Cabal-1.3.2 [...] On 1/7/08, Don Stewart

RE: GHC Internals Changed

2008-01-14 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Probably not, or at least not well. I'm afraid you'll just have to look at the new API and ask questions. Putting what you learn on the Wiki is a great service for others who walk the same path. Simon | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

GHC Data.List.sort performance question

2008-01-14 Thread Marcus D. Gabriel
Hello, By a rather indirect route, I discovered that I obtain an almost factor of two improvement in performance in Data.List.sort if I make one small change in the implementation of the function merge which supports mergesort and hence sortBy and sort. Admittedly, the improvement was only

Re: GHC Data.List.sort performance question

2008-01-14 Thread Don Stewart
mdg: Hello, By a rather indirect route, I discovered that I obtain an almost factor of two improvement in performance in Data.List.sort if I make one small change in the implementation of the function merge which supports mergesort and hence sortBy and sort. Admittedly, the improvement