On Fri, 30 May 2008 10:43:22 -0400
Gregory Wright
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/ticket/2013/2013.patch
*BSD folks please test.
I built the 20080529 snapshot with this patch and my light testing of ghci showed no problems (FreeBSD 7.0/x86_64).
20080531 and NetBSD-amd64 4.0, not so good:
GHCi, version 6.8.2.20080531: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help
Loading package base ... linking ... done.
Bad system call (core dumped)
SIGSYS appears to happen in select(), is all I could get out of gdb. Prior
to the patch, it was the usual error.
Otherwise, 20080531 seems to work as well as 6.8.2 release on NetBSD-amd64.
NetBSD defines ELF64_ST_TYPE and ELF64_ST_BIND.
Unfortunately, it won't build with the GNU "ar" that's standard on this
platform. It can't index archives as big as libHSbase.a: apparently, it
allocates too many moderately large hash tables for the many small modules
in that archive, and runs out of memory. I worked around this by reducing
the default hash table size in libbfd.so. I'm not saying any of this makes
sense, it's just what I eventually managed to get working. Otherwise, it
builds smoothly.
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