Re: Installing hat

Malcolm Wallace <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:54:02 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.haskell.hat
Organization	Dept of Computer Science, University of York
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Bernd Brassel <[email protected]> writes:

> I encountered a problem with installing hat with nhc98:
> The heap was not big enuogh to compile PreludeBasic and
> make aborted consequently.
> When I increased the heap with -M200M the compilation worked.

Interesting.  For building the Hat libraries with nhc98, the Makefile
already sets the resource limits quite high at 64Mb of heap and 12Mb
of stack.  This seems to be sufficient on our machines, but I'll
happily increase the numbers if this is a common problem.

Regards,
    Malcolm