On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 19:39 +0200, Michael Snoyman wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying out NearlyFreeSpeech.net for hosting my Haskell apps. They use FreeBSD 7.2, but I can't get cabal-install to compile since it runs out of memory during the link phase. So far I haven't had trouble manually installing packages, but it would be nice to just do cabal install...
I expect you'll find the same thing happens if you link anything else. My suggestion is to rebuild ghc from source and disable the "split objects" feature. That feature reduces final binary sizes but it makes the linker work too hard (and use too much memory). On Gentoo we used to disable "split objects" on machines with less than 256Mb memory. And that was with GNU ld which has had some memory use improvements in recent years. Duncan