GHC 6.4.3 is stalled
Joel Reymont
joelr1 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 25 07:29:04 EDT 2006
I have been mindlessly recompiling 6.5 over and over and I _did_ see
a problem with the test runner which I reported. Simon Marlow
mentioned it could be a problem with threading.
Are there tickets for the threading issues? Description of the
problem? Possible ways to reproduce it?
On Jul 25, 2006, at 11:50 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> Folks
>
> GHC 6.4.2's threaded runtime system does not work right on
> Solaris
> MacOSX
> Possibly FreeBSD
>
> We'd love to fix these bugs and release 6.4.3, but we are stalled
> because we don't have easy access to these platforms, nor do we have
> detailed expertise in their intimate details (which is where the bugs
> will be lurking).
>
> If you care about these platforms, would you like to lend a hand? We
> probably need more help than simply "here's access to the
> platform", but
> we'd give you very strong support if you were willing to look into it.
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