Re: *BSD support in 6.8.3
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 dumped) SIGSYS appears to happen in select(), is all I could get out of gdb. Prior to the patch, it was the usual error. I guess the error in the linker was masking the SIGSYS in select(), because it occurred first. So now we need to figure out what is causing this SIGSYS. Well, good news and bad news. The patch works - this was indeed a different problem, and with that out of the way ghci comes up and works well enough to pass some randomly selected tests from a testsuite - ghci, rts. This is 20080531 plus patch 2013. The SIGSYS problem is an awkward issue between GHC and NetBSD, which I see has already been reported, #2305. C code compiled from /usr/include/signal.h links to __sigprocmask14, but libraries/base/System/Posix/Internals.hs links to sigprocmask because it misses out on the __RENAME magic in signal.h. That's a compatibility function that doesn't work out so well for ghci. I will take this up with the NetBSD ghc package maintainer. At worst, we can just hard-code the (incompatibility?) function names. thanks, -- Donn Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.8.3 Release Candidate - MacOS X (Intel/Leopard) installer, updated!
Here is an updated release candidate for the MacOS X installer for Intel/Leopard: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/GHC-6.8.2.20080604-i386.pkg It includes readline support statically linked. Unless we receive any bug reports, these are basically the bits you'll get for the 6.8.3 release. So, please test it thoroughly. Manuel PS: I am not very hopeful about having a 10.4 (Tiger) version of the installer for 6.8.3. I am currently missing a method to identify the symbols in an executable that lead to the bus error (invariably at _calloc_initialize) that signals an attempt to execute a Leopard binary on Tiger. If any Mac guru here knows how to identify these symbols, let me know. (I know about DYLD_PRINT_BINDINGS and friends, but that didn't help me so far.) Alternatively, grab http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/GHC-6.9.20080526-i386.dmg -my currently best effort at cross-compiling for 10.4- and tell me why it won't run on Tiger. Manuel M T Chakravarty: A Mac installer version of the release candidate for Intel/Leopard Macs is at http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/GHC-6.8.2.20080529-i386.pkg This version of GHC includes neither editline nor readline at the moment (this will be fixed for the final release). It also only works for Leopard (MacOS X 10.5) as I haven't managed to get cross compiling for older OS versions fully functional yet. In any case, please test this if you have an Intel/Leopard Mac and are interested in a one-click installer with no dependencies other than a recent version of Xcode. The packages comes with an uninstall script located at /Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Tools/Uninstaller It will overwrite other 6.8.x versions of GHC installed from an installer package, but peacefully coexist with other distributions of 6.8 and with GHC versions other than 6.8 independent of how they were installed. Manuel 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.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.2.20080527-src.tar.bz2 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.2.20080527-src-extralibs.tar.bz2 Only the first of these is necessary. The extralibs package contains various extra packages that are often supplied with GHC - unpack the extralibs tarball on top of the source tree to add them, and they will be included in the build automatically. There is also currently an installer for i386/Windows and binary distributions for x86_64/Linux and i386/Linux. More may appear later. Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them before the release! We expect to release in a few days, assuming no major issues are discovered. Thanks Ian, on behalf of the GHC team ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
