Re: Patch for shared libraries support on FreeBSD

2010-01-08 Thread Maxime Henrion
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 00:08 +0100, Maxime Henrion wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 09:36 +, Simon Marlow wrote: > > On 03/01/10 23:19, Maxime Henrion wrote: > > > At that point I feel like this patch would be worth committing, minus > > > the libffi/ghc.mk hack and po

Re: Patch for shared libraries support on FreeBSD

2010-01-04 Thread Maxime Henrion
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 09:36 +, Simon Marlow wrote: > On 03/01/10 23:19, Maxime Henrion wrote: > > At that point I feel like this patch would be worth committing, minus > > the libffi/ghc.mk hack and possibly name changes, so I'm even more eager > > to hear about the a

Re: Patch for shared libraries support on FreeBSD

2010-01-03 Thread Maxime Henrion
On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 00:03 +0100, Maxime Henrion wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 14:20 +, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 12:09 +0100, Maxime Henrion wrote: > > > > > - Is there a plan to deal with the ldconfig cache on UNIX systems? As > > >

Re: Patch for shared libraries support on FreeBSD

2010-01-01 Thread Maxime Henrion
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 14:20 +, Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 12:09 +0100, Maxime Henrion wrote: > > > - Is there a plan to deal with the ldconfig cache on UNIX systems? As > > things are now, I had to manually add all the package directories > > under /

Patch for shared libraries support on FreeBSD

2009-12-30 Thread Maxime Henrion
Hello guys, As the subject says I've been hacking to get the shared libraries code of GHC 6.12.1 to work on FreeBSD. This patch is mere plumbing to get the code to treat FreeBSD just the same as Linux. I expected FreeBSD to follow the same ELF conventions than Linux and as far as I can