[Xmonad] crashes on latest xmonad

Donald Bruce Stewart dons at cse.unsw.edu.au
Fri May 25 22:06:15 EDT 2007


droundy:
> On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 02:39:17AM +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Hmmm.  Now the problem has disappeared (on recompiling).  Darn, a
> heisenbug.  Oh well, I'll try this again if the problem ever crops up
> again.

Maybe a cosmic ray corrupted your last compile :-)

Anyway -- good! This means , I think, there are no open bugs preventing
0.2. We're now entering a few days of feature freeze to the core, and a
process of doc writing and QC testing.

-- Don


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