6.4.2 under solaris

[Christian Maeder]

Simon Marlow wrote:
> Do you know if the stage2 compiler works with -threaded?  Or does it
> still crash?

The stage2 compiler created with -threaded seg-faulted even for a simple 
hello.hs. That's the reason I've switched off -threaded.

> That needs to be investigated.

I've no clue how to go about this.

> Ok, but that doesn't help me find a fix.  Any chance you could
> investigate why my fix didn't work?  It apparently worked on the machine
> I tried it on, but I think that was Solaris 9.

Well. at least Florenz reported independently the same ctime_r problem 
under Solaris 10 in http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/775

Maybe the configure test needs an update for Solaris 10.

Our (Solaris 10) ctime_r function needs three arguments and thus is not 
standard-conforming, but has the same functionality as ctime.

Cheers Christian