how is Linux GHC formed?

[Ian Lynagh]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 05:04:25PM -0800, Jason Dusek wrote:
>   How was the Linux binary for GHC created? I am looking at ways
>   to compile Haskell binaries for Linux that work across
>   distros. So far, I have been using `-static -optl-static` but
>   today there was a weird hiccup with IO -- the Gentoo built
>   binary worked fine on Gentoo but caught SIGPIPE intermittently
>   on Ubuntu -- and so it's back to the drawing board.
> 
>   The GHC linux binary seems to work on all the Linii without
>   discrimination, so I'd like to know what the procedure is for
>   producing it, and what I can take away from that to put in my
>   Cabal file.

The only special thing we do is to put "BeConservative = YES" in
mk/build.mk when compiling GHC. This means that we don't try to use
clock_gettime in the RTS.


Thanks
Ian