Re: haskell-debian and -threaded

2010-07-04 Thread Trent W. Buck
Jeremy Shaw writes: >> On Jun 28, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Joachim Breitner wrote: >>> so should we just disable the building of haskell-debian on arches >>> without a threaded API, until someone comes along who is bothered by >>> that and can verify that disabling the flag does no harm? > > Sounds sen

Re: haskell-debian and -threaded

2010-06-28 Thread Jeremy Shaw
Sounds sensible. - jeremy On Jun 28, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi, so should we just disable the building of haskell-debian on arches without a threaded API, until someone comes along who is bothered by that and can verify that disabling the flag does no harm? Greetings, Joa

Re: haskell-debian and -threaded

2010-06-28 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, so should we just disable the building of haskell-debian on arches without a threaded API, until someone comes along who is bothered by that and can verify that disabling the flag does no harm? Greetings, Joachim Am Montag, den 28.06.2010, 10:39 -0500 schrieb Jeremy Shaw: > The -threaded opt

Re: haskell-debian and -threaded

2010-06-28 Thread Jeremy Shaw
Hello, The -threaded option is useful even when not using any special RTS options. At one point in time, I had problems when running running external programs and reading their output. With the normal runtime that would often hang, but it worked fine with the threaded runtime. I just star

haskell-debian and -threaded

2010-06-25 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi David, debian.cabal specifies ghc-options: -O2 -threaded -W which does not work on some architectures, as they do not have a threaded runtime.ยน Are you sure that this option is actually useful? IIRC it is only relevant if the binary is called with "+RTS -N -RTS"? We would have to make the op