ANN: ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts

[Thorkil Naur]

Hello Christian,

On Monday 17 March 2008 12:31, Christian Maeder wrote:
> Thanks Chris!
> 
> This should fix
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1958
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2117
> 
> Thorkil, you called your patch "illustrative only". I suggest to commit
> it. Any objections? Thanks for the patch, anyway.

No objections at all, since the patch does appear to solve some real problems. 
But I would suggest that we keep at least #1958 open, until we have 
understood the problem better. As described in #1958, the patch is what I 
would call a lucky guess, based on several experiments with different 
versions of very small assembly language programs that triggered the linker 
error message. I, at least, would not claim to understand what goes on in 
detail.

I have not head from Apple since reporting the problem. I checked a few weeks 
ago and currently I am actually unable to access the bug reporter. I have a 
plan eventually to try to figure out what the real problem is (that is, 
debugging the linker), but haven't gotten around to it so far.

> 
> Cheers Christian
> 
> My built can be found at:
> 
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/agbkb/forschung/formal_methods/CoFI/hets/mac/ghcs/ghc-6.8.2-powerpc-apple-darwin-static-libs.tar.bz2
> It uses static libs for gmp, ncurses and readline, but should run on
> tiger and leopard ppc. (#1845, #2031 are still problems)
> 
> C.M.Brown wrote:
> > Hi Christian,
> > 
> > The build went without any problems, the log can be found here:
> > 
> > http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/rpg/cmb21/inst.log.gz
> > 
> > kind regards,
> > Chris.
> > 
> 
> 

Thanks to you all for working on this matter.

Best regards
Thorkil