GHC 6.4.1 and Win32 DLLs: Bug in shutdownHaskell?

[Simon Marlow]

Michael Marte wrote:
> Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> 
>> I'm not implying anything, except that I've plugged the space
>> leak of 256M every time a DLL is loaded&unloaded.
>>
>>     -- Lennart
>>
>> Michael Marte wrote:
>>
>>> Lennart,
>>>
>>> do you imply that you have fixed the problem causing the crashes?
>>> May I safely assume that DLLs produced by ghc 6.4.2 will not crash 
>>> upon being freed?
>>
>>
> I wanted to test the fix for ticket #711 but I am stuck because there is 
> no current snapshot of ghc 6.5 for mingw. (The last one is dated end of 
> February, the patch was commited on  March, 2nd.)

The patch hasn't been committed at all, AFAIK.

> I saw that the patch is scheduled for milestone 6.4.2 but has been 
> commited only for 6.5. When will it be available for 6.4.2?
> 
> I started learning to compile ghc and I have succeeded with the current 
> head of the 6.4 branch on Debian Linux/testing. Next step is to compile 
> the head on this system. My current problem is a missing symbol when 
> linking stage1/ghc-6.5, namely u_gencat  referenced by 
> stage1/parser/Lexer.o. Am I missing some library?
> (I think my sources are up to date, I pulled only half an hour ago.)

When compiling with 6.4.1 or later, u_gencat should come from 
libHSbase_cbits.a in your 6.4.1 installation.  Is it there?

Cheers,
	Simon