[arch-haskell] Compiling large-memory programs in HABS (gitit available for those with RAM)

[Leif Warner]

gitit 0.8 came out yesterday, and thanks to its upgrade to happstack 6, can
now be built on the current set of HABS packages.
Provided you have at least 4 GB of RAM, I'm guessing.  It looks like the
linking the executable stage takes up 2.5 GB of RAM, and it's not going to
build in any reasonable amount of time on my 64-bit 2GB box.
I was going to try dynamically linking it, but the command-line option for
that doesn't seem support in the installed version of Cabal.
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/600
So, I was thinking of firing up a Large (7.5 GB) EC2 instance to compile it.
 Does a similar option exist for 32-bit?
gitit is a nice tool to run, but the build requirements might put off casual
usage - this is a real advantage to having pre-built binary packages
available.

Also, in the future, should I throw in a heads up when packages take say,
over 1GB of RAM to build?

-Leif Warner
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