GHC 6.4.1 and Win32 DLLs: Bug in shutdownHaskell?

[Michael Marte]

Simon Marlow wrote:

> 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.

Ok, it am new to Darcs, so this patch is only a proposal contained in 
the ticket?

>
>> 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?
>
>
No, I am compiling with plain 6.4 (a newer Debain package is not 
available) and it does not have u_gencat in this library.
However I can compile the head of the 6.4 branch which in turn should be 
able to compile the head, shouldn't it?

Michael