compiling PrimOp.lhs

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

mechvel:
> Dear GHC developers,
> 
> `Making' GHC of   cvs update -r ghc-6-2-branch
> 
> with  ghc-6.2.1 
> 
> on  RedHat Linux (about version 8) libc-2.2, i686
> 
> seems to meet a problem:
> 
> 
>   ******************************************************************
>   ... myfptools ...
>   ...
>   > cd myfptools 
>   > ./configure --prefix=...
>   > ...
>   > make boot    
>   >             "... run it from ghc or ..."
>   
>   -- OK, probably  make boot  not needed,   right?
> 
>   > make all 
> 
> 
>   make[1]: Entering directory 
>    `/disk2/home/mechvel/ghcCVS/myfptools/glafp-utils'
>   -------------------------------------------------------------------
>    ===fptools== Recursively making `boot' in mkdependC mkdirhier
>    runstdtest docbook lndir ...
>    PWD = /disk2/home/mechvel/ghcCVS/myfptools/glafp-utils
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   ...
>   ...
>  
>   e1/main  -istage1/profiling  -istage1/parser  -istage1/cprAnalysis 
>     ...   -c basicTypes/NewDemand.lhs -o stage1/basicTypes/NewDemand.o  
>           -ohi stage1/basicTypes/NewDemand.hi
>   <<ghc: 159979968 bytes, 32 GCs, 3950581/8666736 avg/max bytes 
>       residency (4 samples), 20M in use, 0.01 INIT (0.00 elapsed), 
>       1.09 MUT (3.03 elapsed), 0.50 GC (0.55 elapsed) :ghc>>
> 
>   /usr/bin/ghc -H16m -O  -istage1/utils  -istage1/basicTypes 
>     ... fglasgow-exts -Rghc-timing -I. -IcodeGen -InativeGen -Iparser 
>      -recomp -Rghc-timing  -H16M '-#include "hschooks.h"' 
>      -no-recomp -H80m 
>      -c prelude/PrimOp.lhs
>      -o stage1/prelude/PrimOp.o  -ohi stage1/prelude/PrimOp.hi
> 
>   ./primop-tag.hs-incl:2:
>     Warning: Pattern match(es) are overlapped
>              In the definition of `tagOf_PrimOp': tagOf_PrimOp op = ...
>   *******************************************************************
> 
> Now, it stayed at this point for about 50 minutes, no messages appear,
> ghc-6.2.1, cc1  keep on being re-envoked in turn.
> I have just interrupted it.
> This module does not look large, and is given  -H80m  ...
> 
> What is the matter, please?

Do you have a very slow machine? Very low memory?
It takes maybe 15-20 minutes to compiler PrimOp.lhs on a 150 MHz SPARCstation-20.

Probably not the machine, though.

-- Don