Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on suse 9.2 x86 or x86-64)

2005-02-22 Thread Brian Strand
Hello, I'm having some serious issues getting GHC to run on Suse 9.2/x86 (or x86-64 for that matter, although I didn't really expect that to work without some pain and suffering). I've had no luck with 6.2.2, or any 6.4 release candidate. Here is a typical example: after doing a ./configure;

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on suse 9.2 x86 or x86-64)

2005-02-23 Thread Brian Strand
Jens Petersen wrote: Brian Strand wrote: Hello, I'm having some serious issues getting GHC to run on Suse 9.2/x86 (or x86-64 for that matter, although I didn't really expect that to work without some pain and suffering). I've had no luck with 6.2.2, or any 6.4 release candidate. Here

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on suse 9.2 x86 or x86-64)

2005-02-23 Thread Brian Strand
Anders Höckersten wrote: ... There are some debian packages of ghc 6.2.2 and related stuff for amd64 located here: http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64/pool/unstable/main/amd64/g/ghc6/ Hopefully you can find some way to convert these to a format you can install (there are programs for

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on suse 9.2 x86 or x86-64)

2005-02-23 Thread Brian Strand
Simon Marlow wrote: On 22 February 2005 20:05, Brian Strand wrote: [ snipped ] You actually need the .hc source files too, which don't come with the source distribution because they have to be built for each target platform. That section of the Building Guide wasn't really clear enough

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on suse 9.2 x86 or x86-64)

2005-02-23 Thread Brian Strand
Wolfgang Thaller wrote: Thanks, good to know; I'll read through 10.2 more carefully. I didn't think I'd need to cross-compile x86-linux to x86-linux. You don't need to - the recommended way is to download a binary version. If you don't like using binary distributions, then use it for

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on suse 9.2 x86 or x86-64)

2005-02-24 Thread Brian Strand
Jens Petersen wrote: Brian Strand wrote: Unfortunately I'm still stuck on x86-64, since there are no official binaries to bootstrap from on that platform. But at least I have a ghc to play with while waiting for x86-64 to become official. There is a x86_64 build already in Fedora Haskell

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on suse 9.2 x86 or x86-64)

2005-02-24 Thread Brian Strand
Wolfgang Thaller wrote: Brian Strand wrote: Not being intimately familiar with ghc internals, I don't know how much work this is, and whether the implementation cost exceeds the benefit (easier installation for Haskell novices like me). My guess is that for GHC, it won't work; the .hc files

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on x86-64)

2005-02-25 Thread Brian Strand
Simon Marlow wrote: Just to let you know, there are a number of open bug reports for GHC on the x86_64 platform, which seem to indicate some kind of occasional memory/GC problem. I'm probably not going to be able to track this down until after the 6.4 release, but we'll put out a patch as soon as

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on x86-64)

2005-02-27 Thread Brian Strand
Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: bstrand: Simon Marlow wrote: Just to let you know, there are a number of open bug reports for GHC on the x86_64 platform, which seem to indicate some kind of occasional memory/GC problem. I'm probably not going to be able to track this down until after the 6.4 release,

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on x86-64)

2005-03-01 Thread Brian Strand
Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: bstrand: Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: bstrand: Simon Marlow wrote: Just to let you know, there are a number of open bug reports for GHC on the x86_64 platform, which seem to indicate some kind of occasional memory/GC problem. I'm probably not going to be able to track