[cvs-nhc98] Re: Linux i686 build nhc98/hat

[Malcolm Wallace]

You will have noticed the first appearance of nightly build-reports on the
cvs-nhc98 mailing list:

> Time for build with ghc-6.6.1
> 
> real	37m2.752s
> user	17m46.280s
> sys	2m53.572s

I have been running these builds for many years, and they are jolly
useful for flagging up accidental breakage of libraries and so forth.
The reason I have started to send the logs to a mailing list is two-fold:

  (1) Breakage of library packages has become rather frequent, and in
      the absence of any library developer running their own nightly
      builds of nhc98, the next best thing is to place my own report
      somewhere where they can look at it.

  (2) I'm hoping that a little extra visibility for the (largely
      working) current status of nhc98 might encourage some more
      developers to take nhc98 more seriously, and maybe even start
      contributing to it.  It is good to have more than a single
      implementation of the Haskell language.

Now I also realise that there is a lot of verbose junk in the build
report.  These are mostly harmless warnings from GHC, gcc, and nhc98
itself, but until you get used to the general pattern, they do tend to
obscure the relevant information somewhat.  Apologies, and maybe the
public visibility of this junk will cause me to put some effort into
finding ways to avoid generating the warnings in the first place.

Regards,
    Malcolm