Christian Maeder wrote:
Hi,
I've created the following binary distributions, but -- like Serge Mechveliani -- I'm not very happy with the results, because the created binaries are much bigger.
http://www.dfki.de/sks/hets/pc-solaris/ghcs/ghc-6.8.3-i386-unknown-solaris2....
http://www.dfki.de/sks/hets/pc-solaris/ghcs/ghc-6.8.3-tests.log.bz2
http://www.dfki.de/sks/hets/mac/ghcs/ghc-6.8.3-powerpc-apple-darwin.tar.bz2 http://www.dfki.de/sks/hets/mac/ghcs/ghc-6.8.3-tests.log.bz2
The log files contain the results of running "(g)make stage=2" in testsuite/tests/ghc-regress. The summaries are below.
The Tiger Mac OS PPC (8.11.0 Darwin) distribution relies on libreadline.5.2.dylib and libncurses.5.dylib under /opt/local/lib/. libgmp.a is statically linked in.
Due to the increased code sizes it is more likely to get "relocation overflow" (therefore this distribution does not work for our hets project). http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2031
For i386 Solaris it would be good to have a GHC build slave to improve the testsuite results (below) and to avoid building problems (that Ian Lynagh helped to resolve before. Thanks!).
The sizes of our compressed hets binaries increased as follows: ghc-6.8.2 ghc-6.8.3 i386-Solaris 10 Mb 16 Mb i386-Darwin 7 Mb 13 Mb i386-Linux 7.2 Mb 10 Mb
(i.e. compare http://www.dfki.de/sks/hets/linux/daily/ with a recent http://www.dfki.de/sks/hets/linux/versions/)
That's odd - I measured binary sizes thoroughly before the release and didn't see any difference between 6.8.3 and 6.8.2. Perhaps -split-objs got lost somewhere? Or maybe you upgraded gcc at some point? Cheers, Simon