Re: Making GHC work on BSD

2008-09-12 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:08:27PM +0200, Thorkil Naur wrote: > > take the latest (7.0) FreeBSD and install that. > > So, it would be useful to know, which FreeBSD version would you prefer to use > for this? I think that it's most important to get GHC working in the latest version, so from your

Re: Making GHC work on BSD

2008-09-10 Thread Simon Marlow
Matthias Kilian wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:00:59PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: Is this a change from 6.8.3? NetBSD currently provides 6.8.3 as an optional package for NetBSD/i386 4.0, with ghci included and without any mmap patches as far as I know. It was also working for me on NetBSD/a

Re: Making GHC work on BSD

2008-09-09 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:00:59PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > >Is this a change from 6.8.3? NetBSD currently provides 6.8.3 as an > >optional package for NetBSD/i386 4.0, with ghci included and without > >any mmap patches as far as I know. It was also working for me on > >NetBSD/amd64 (which is

Re: Making GHC work on BSD

2008-09-09 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 01:22:15PM +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > We'd like GHC to be buildable on BSD, but at the moment it isn't. > We support GHC on Linux, Windows, Mac, but we really need help > with BSD. The current plans for OpenBSD (and I can only speak for OpenBSD here) are to provide

Re: Making GHC work on BSD

2008-09-09 Thread Simon Marlow
Donn Cave wrote: | ... and one that I think applies to all the *BSDs: | | 2063Breackage on OpenBSD due to mmap remap | | (actually the latter one is a top priority, because without it GHCi can't | work, so we need it fixed for 6.10.1). Is this a change from 6.8.3? NetBSD currently provides

Re: Making GHC work on BSD

2008-09-08 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Monday 08 September 2008 14:22, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > Dear BDS hackers > > We'd like GHC to be buildable on BSD, but at the moment it isn't. We support GHC on Linux, Windows, Mac, but we really need help with BSD. I would like to do something about this. I have (a number of) x8

Re: Making GHC work on BSD

2008-09-08 Thread Austin Seipp
Excerpts from Simon Peyton-Jones's message of Mon Sep 08 07:22:15 -0500 2008: > Dear BDS hackers > > We'd like GHC to be buildable on BSD, but at the moment it isn't. We support > GHC on Linux, Windows, Mac, but we really need help with BSD. > > Alas, we didn't get much response to Simon's messa

Making GHC work on BSD

2008-09-08 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Dear BDS hackers We'd like GHC to be buildable on BSD, but at the moment it isn't. We support GHC on Linux, Windows, Mac, but we really need help with BSD. Alas, we didn't get much response to Simon's message below. (One, I think -- thank you to that person! I think it was Kili, but I'm not