Re: Can't compile GHC 6.8.2

2008-12-12 Thread Barney Stratford
The right place to add this would be in rts/package.conf.in, in extra-ld- opts, with suitable platform-specific #ifdefs. If you can whip up a patch and test it, I'll commit. Here's the patch, which now compiles correctly. diff -u a/rts/package.conf.in b/rts/package.conf.in ---

Re: ghci and ghc -threaded [slowdown]

2008-12-12 Thread Malcolm Wallace
Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote: Malcolm Wallace wrote: For the only application I tried, using the threaded RTS imposes a 100% performance penalty - i.e. computation time doubles, compared to the non-threaded RTS. This was with ghc-6.8.2, and maybe the overhead has improved

Re: ghc 6.10.1 on freebsd 7 amd64 - ghci problems

2008-12-12 Thread Markus Barenhoff
On Wed 10.12 13:55, Simon Marlow wrote: Hi! I checked out and translated the head version of ghc today from darcs. It compiled fine. When I now try to start the ghci I get the following: snip GHCi, version 6.11.20081126: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help ghc: internal

Re: ghc-paths

2008-12-12 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 01:12:58PM +, Simon Marlow wrote: Jens Petersen wrote: Are there any plans to include ghc-paths in ghc itself? Not at present. It's more difficult to ship it with GHC than it is to build it post-installation, because it is essentially compiled code that