[PATCH]: random package rangeTest fix for CWChar on Windows

Here's the patch I submitted Ryan earlier in September for the random package failure. I suppose it should be updated to use the new platform stuff instead of the CPP ickiness. Fyi, Bill -- Forwarded message -- From: Bill Tutt Date: Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:02 AM Subject: [

Re: [patch] Don't detect libiconv/libcharset on Windows to avoid changing GHCs build behavior on windows with newer mingw installs

you don't care about 16-byte alignments (MMX, SSE, etc..). If you do, then it would seem you'd want to either always auto-readjust or autoconf the issue into oblivion. Bill On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Bill Tutt wrote: > After I made this change I got the following results from gh

Re: [patch] Don't detect libiconv/libcharset on Windows to avoid changing GHCs build behavior on windows with newer mingw installs

After I made this change I got the following results from ghc-HEAD with the newer mingw and bootstrapping from 7.0.2. The only worrying failures were the rts/5250 (esp alignment) and the simplCore/should_compile cases. I'm hoping the simplCore cases should be related to those Integer changes folks

[patch] Don't detect libiconv/libcharset on Windows to avoid changing GHCs build behavior on windows with newer mingw installs

This change allows me to have a successful bootstrap from 7.2.1 bootstrapping compiler (with devel1) of ghc-HEAD I suggest putting the change in 7.0.x, 7.2.1, and ghc-HEAD so that updated Windows build instructions can be created in the wiki. If iconv is detected vector-0.8 fails to build because