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On Friday 18 June 2004 15:39, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
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Which brings us around to the question that opened this thread, is there any way to install the unregistered build?
Yes. Download and build the src, and 'make install' :-)
For some platforms unregistered builds are even being distributed in the native package format, openbsd/amd64 for one, and Ian Lynagh has a *bunch* of Debian platforms running unregisterised GHC.
If you mean ftp://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pub/debian-amd64/pure64/pool/main/g/ghc6/ghc6_6.2.1-2_amd64.deb
I was thinking more of the other weird unregisterised Debian archs GHC is built for.
this does build hello-world but fails on every other reasonable program I've tried it with (internal error: getMBlock: mmap: Invalid argument). And if the compilation should succeed the compiled program won't run (segfault because of mmap() or munmap()).
Sounds like the behaviour of the amd64 *registerised* build, not an unregisterised one?
It's exactly the same problem with my home made build so I don't think it's of much use at the moment.
*sigh* openbsd/amd64 runs fine, and the Haskell ports on this arch (darcs, alex, happy..) all work. SimonM built a working amd64-linux build about a year ago, so it does run on linux. Someone needs to dive in and debug this for linux, because the above problem isn't a limitation of the amd64 GHC port, but something linux specific. <bsd>or you could switch to a different OS ;)</bsd> -- Don