Re: nhc98-1.16 for OpenBSD

Malcolm Wallace <[email protected]> Mon, 10 May 2004 10:34:22 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.haskell.nhc.user
Organization Dept of Computer Science, University of York
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] (Donald Bruce Stewart) writes:

> nhc98-1.16 has been imported into the OpenBSD ports tree. 

Thanks for your work in making this port.

> I've also stripped down the ghc regress tests so that we could
> auto-regress test nhc as it gets built.

Very nice.  I'd like to find a way to incorporate this testsuite into
the standard build process if possible.

> nhc won't build on at least amd64, so I've disabled 64 bit platforms
> (this is a known issue?)

Yes, nhc98 is 32-bit only at the moment.

> It seems gcc-3.3.2 doesn't play well with nhc, at the
> moment, as this failure looks similar to a gcc3 failure I've had on
> linux/i386 too.

Ah, this may be the same issue that two or three people have already
reported.  I haven't been able to track it down yet.

Regards,
    Malcolm