[Xmonad] crashes on latest xmonad

Donald Bruce Stewart dons at cse.unsw.edu.au
Thu May 24 12:39:17 EDT 2007


droundy:
> On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 02:21:16AM +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> > > This doesn't look good.  Any suggestions? Is it really a ghc bug?
> > 
> > Can you try recompiling with -O or -Onot, and with -fvia-C. We'll find
> > out if its a GHC code gen bug (almost certainly a ghc bug).
> 
> Any hints how to do this? I'm a cabal-illiterate... and I almost certainly
> won't have a chance to try this until tomorrow.

Oh, experiment with some different settings in xmonad.cabal:

    ghc-options:        -funbox-strict-fields -O2 -fasm -Wall -optl-Wl,-s

Try -O, -O -fvia-c, -Onot and such. See if we can narrow it down for
Simon et al.

-- Don


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