Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.8.3 Release Candidate

2008-05-28 Thread Peter Gammie
Ian: does static linking on linux work? See my earlier emails, it is easy enough to test. Would you like me to report a bug? There really should be a unit test for this. cheers peter On 28/05/2008, at 10:20 PM, Ian Lynagh wrote: We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GH

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.8.3 Release Candidate

2008-05-28 Thread Serge D. Mechveliani
No, ghc-6.8.2.20080527-src.tar.bz2 (`made' on Debian Linux, i686) does not work. See DoCon-2.11. It compiles DoCon-2.11 with taking too much memory (> 300 Mb) and 3-4 times more of time than ghc-6.8.2. And then, the test fails. - Serge Mechveliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed,

Re: *BSD support in 6.8.3

2008-05-28 Thread Don Stewart
marlowsd: > Hi Folks, > > 6.8.3 is nearing release, and we have an outstanding bug affecting the > GHCi on the BSDs: > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2013 > > We need someone to help out with this. The patch in the ticket apparently > works, but can't be committed as is becaus

Re: *BSD support in 6.8.3

2008-05-28 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:25:48PM -0400, Gregory Wright wrote: > > I have a FreeBSD 7.0/x86_64 machine I can test this on. Should the > patch be applied to the > 6.8.3 release candidate tarball, or just the head of the 6.8.x branch? Either, they're the same at the moment - although if you wan

Re: *BSD support in 6.8.3

2008-05-28 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi Simon, On May 28, 2008, at 5:05 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: Hi Folks, 6.8.3 is nearing release, and we have an outstanding bug affecting the GHCi on the BSDs: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2013 We need someone to help out with this. The patch in the ticket apparently works

ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.8.3 Release Candidate

2008-05-28 Thread Ian Lynagh
We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.8.3. Snapshots beginning with 6.8.2.20080527 are release candidates for 6.8.3 You can download snapshots from here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ Right now we have the source bundles: http://www.haskell.or

Re: 6.6.1 vs 6.8.2 --- Re: large binary footprint ?

2008-05-28 Thread Christian Maeder
see http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2312 -split-objs is passed to stage1/ghc-inplace when building the library, yet there's only at most one part for each module. Cheers Christian Simon Marlow wrote: -bash-3.00$ ghc --info [("Project name","The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilatio

Re: static linking

2008-05-28 Thread Simon Marlow
Peter Gammie wrote: Hello, Further on my static linking woes: debian ~$ ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.8.2 -debian ~$ cat T.hs main :: IO () main = putStrLn "Hello world" -debian ~$ ghc -optl-static -static --make T.hs Linking T ... /usr/lib/gcc/i486-li

Re: 6.6.1 vs 6.8.2 --- Re: large binary footprint ?

2008-05-28 Thread Simon Marlow
Christian Maeder wrote: Don Stewart wrote: hp: I convinced myself that the ~500kbytes for the 'hello' code is 'correct' in version 6.6.1. [ The exact size on the platform mentioned below is 422k. ] Looks like version 6.8.2 blows up the binary code size significantly --- 3.9Mbytes vs 0.422Mb

*BSD support in 6.8.3

2008-05-28 Thread Simon Marlow
Hi Folks, 6.8.3 is nearing release, and we have an outstanding bug affecting the GHCi on the BSDs: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2013 We need someone to help out with this. The patch in the ticket apparently works, but can't be committed as is because it isn't correctly #ifde

Re: static linking

2008-05-28 Thread Peter Gammie
Hello, Further on my static linking woes: debian ~$ ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.8.2 -debian ~$ cat T.hs main :: IO () main = putStrLn "Hello world" -debian ~$ ghc -optl-static -static --make T.hs Linking T ... /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2.3/../../.