Re: *BSD support in 6.8.3

2008-06-07 Thread Simon Marlow
Donn Cave wrote: On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:23:36 -0700 Donn Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It looks like, in base anyway, this actually goes in a .h file, to a pattern like ... ah, never mind that, I see those wrappers are not the sort I need. Yes, those are the kind of wrappers I mean.

Re: *BSD support in 6.8.3

2008-06-07 Thread Donn Cave
On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:14:02 +0100 Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donn Cave wrote: On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:23:36 -0700 Donn Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It looks like, in base anyway, this actually goes in a .h file, to a pattern like ... ah, never mind that, I see

Re: *BSD support in 6.8.3

2008-06-05 Thread Donn Cave
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:23:36 -0700 Donn Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It looks like, in base anyway, this actually goes in a .h file, to a pattern like ... ah, never mind that, I see those wrappers are not the sort I need. -- Donn Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: *BSD support in 6.8.3

2008-06-03 Thread Donn Cave
On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:36:41 +0100 Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donn Cave wrote: ... 20080531 and NetBSD-amd64 4.0, not so good: GHCi, version 6.8.2.20080531: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package base ... linking ... done. Bad system call (core

Re: *BSD support in 6.8.3

2008-06-02 Thread Simon Marlow
Donn Cave wrote: On Fri, 30 May 2008 10:43:22 -0400 Gregory Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/ticket/2013/2013.patch *BSD folks please test. I built the 20080529 snapshot with this patch and my light testing of ghci showed no problems (FreeBSD

Re: *BSD support in 6.8.3

2008-06-02 Thread Simon Marlow
Gregory Wright wrote: Hi, On May 29, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: Ok, I've now modified the patch and attached a new version to the ticket: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/ticket/2013/2013.patch *BSD folks please test. I built the 20080529 snapshot with this

Re: *BSD support in 6.8.3

2008-06-02 Thread Donn Cave
On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:36:41 +0100 Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, it won't build with the GNU ar that's standard on this platform. It can't index archives as big as libHSbase.a: apparently, it allocates too many moderately large hash tables for the many small modules

Re: *BSD support in 6.8.3

2008-06-01 Thread Donn Cave
On Fri, 30 May 2008 10:43:22 -0400 Gregory Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/ticket/2013/2013.patch *BSD folks please test. I built the 20080529 snapshot with this patch and my light testing of ghci showed no problems (FreeBSD

Re: *BSD support in 6.8.3

2008-06-01 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi, On May 29, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: Ok, I've now modified the patch and attached a new version to the ticket: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/ticket/2013/2013.patch *BSD folks please test. I built the 20080529 snapshot with this patch and my light

Re: *BSD support in 6.8.3

2008-05-30 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi Simon, On May 29, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: Ok, I've now modified the patch and attached a new version to the ticket: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/ticket/2013/2013.patch *BSD folks please test. I built the 20080529 snapshot with this patch and my light

Re: *BSD support in 6.8.3

2008-05-29 Thread Simon Marlow
Don Stewart wrote: 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

Re: *BSD support in 6.8.3

2008-05-29 Thread Wilhelm B. Kloke
Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: So, try the patch to get the patch to compile against ghc 6.8.3-snapshot, and see if it works on OpenBSD? It's not just a case of testing the patch, there are a couple of issues to address: - it has a couple of wired-in addresses: one place to

Re: *BSD support in 6.8.3

2008-05-29 Thread Donn Cave
On Thu, 29 May 2008 11:56:59 + (UTC) Wilhelm B. Kloke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: - it has a couple of wired-in addresses: one place to load object files, another to put jump tables at. This is necessary because *BSD doesn't have the

Re: *BSD support in 6.8.3

2008-05-29 Thread Simon Marlow
Ok, I've now modified the patch and attached a new version to the ticket: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/ticket/2013/2013.patch *BSD folks please test. Wilhelm B. Kloke wrote: Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: So, try the patch to get the patch to compile against ghc

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

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 want

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 because it