Hi, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 08:15:59PM +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote:
Regarding Question 7 (enable dynamic by default on other platforms) and OpenBSD: as long as it's easy to disable it again, I'll be happy with *any* decision.
It will be easy to turn it off, but depending on the platform we might have removed support for GHCi when it's turned off.
Does ghci work for you currently?
Yes, but I'm still at ghc-7,4.2. Not enough time to catch up with recent ghc development :-(
Is this a registerised or unregisterised build?
Registerised, working on i386 and amd66 (or x86 and x86_64 in the non-bsd-world).
That's partially because currently we've even a patch explicitely disabling shared library support in our ports/packages system (last time I tried with shared lib support, I got some segfaults in the midst of the build, and unfortunately I'm still too short of time to debug/fix it).
That's a bit bizarre. With shared libraries enabled, there still won't be any dynamically linked programs actually run.
No worry. There were a lot of changes in OpenBSD during the last 6 months (including dl.so, pthreads, whatever). Wether there's a bug in the GHC build system, or in the (heavily patched) OpenBSD port, or in the binaries we use for bootstrapping, I really dont't know. I wouldn't ve surprised if it's some breakage on my side (with the bootstrappers i supply). Ciao, Kili