On 7/20/08, Andrew Hunter
Right--thing is, it seemed I was getting linker errors on compiling the *libraries*--which seems weird, given that the libraries shouldn't be getting linked, should they? I'm not entirely sure this is what I was seeing, so, well, not a huge consideration, but it does seem weird.
That is indeed weird, and I don't know why that would be happening. It didn't happen after you rebuilt in a clean directory, though, right? (Or at least that's what you seem to imply below.)
After removing "p" from GhcLibWays, which makes sense--the docs make it clear we can't combine prof and ticky, though it also implies that it maybe *should* work; might someone what to look into this?--this worked great, thanks. My tests are running nicely and giving what seems like accurate data. Thanks for the very helpful response.
I think combining prof and ticky might be nontrivial, because the RTS has all sorts of conditional compilation in it that may be predicated on prof and ticky being mutually exclusive. At least, it's not something I would want to dive into implementing unless I had a good reason, and after all, you can just recompile the same code repeatedly with different options to get both prof and ticky results (although that could get annoying.)
Sweet. Admittedly I'm not yet a GHC wizard, but I'd love to help out by fixing this--do you have a rough idea of what would need to be done, or what in fact is the current problem?
I'm not a GHC wizard either, which is why the code that's there doesn't work so well. And I suspect that solving the problem will require some build system hacking, which is an area I'm not familiar with at all, so I can't give much advice about how to solve the problem. You're welcome to try, though. I added a ticket at: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2455 so if you make any progress, you should add a comment there. Cheers, Tim -- Tim Chevalier * http://cs.pdx.edu/~tjc * Often in error, never in doubt "What doesn't kill you makes you look really, really bad." --Carrie Fisher