Re: Porting to DragonFly BSD

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:44:47AM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:

We should get these patches into GHC. Most of them look straightforward, but I'm slightly suspicious of this:

-STANDARD_OPTS += -DCOMPILING_RTS +STANDARD_OPTS += -DCOMPILING_RTS -D_POSIX_VERSION=199309

why was that necessary?

Good that you ask. Can't remember why it was necessary back in april to build ghc-6.10.2 on dragonfly-2.2.1. Cannot reproduce the problem today with ghc-6.10.4 on dragonfly-2.4.1. I am glad, that we do not need this define any more. I think it was a ugly workaround at best.