Re: compiling on solaris 9

2007-09-15 Thread skaller
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 15:42 +0200, Sven Panne wrote: > On Saturday 15 September 2007 13:58, skaller wrote: > > [...] > > 1. Measure the size (and alignment, while at it) of all the > > integer types. (trial execute and run). > > [...] > > 4. For the ones provided, AND size_t, ptrdiff_t, check > > t

Re: compiling on solaris 9

2007-09-15 Thread skaller
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 14:42 +0200, Sven Panne wrote: > On Saturday 15 September 2007 13:58, skaller wrote: > > The RIGHT way to do this is rather messy .. but there is only > > one right way to do it. [...] > > IMHO things are not that black or white: I think we have a tradeoff between > almost 1

About ReplacingGMPNotes

2007-09-15 Thread Roberto Zunino
I noticed the following on http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ReplacingGMPNotes === The LGPL licensing situation may be worse: even though The Glasgow Haskell Compiler License is essentially a "free software" license (BSD3), according to paragraph 2 of the LGPL, GHC must be distributed under

Re: FFI Bindings to Libraries using GMP

2007-09-15 Thread Roberto Zunino
Benedikt Huber wrote: > (3) So when replacing GMP with the BN library of OpenSSL Maybe the following license issues with OpenSSL should be taken into account: http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html Regards, Zun. ___ Glasgow-haskell-user

Re: compiling on solaris 9

2007-09-15 Thread Sven Panne
On Saturday 15 September 2007 13:58, skaller wrote: > [...] > 1. Measure the size (and alignment, while at it) of all the > integer types. (trial execute and run). > [...] > 4. For the ones provided, AND size_t, ptrdiff_t, check > their size (and signedness). (trial execution) Small additional not

Re: compiling on solaris 9

2007-09-15 Thread Sven Panne
On Saturday 15 September 2007 13:58, skaller wrote: > The RIGHT way to do this is rather messy .. but there is only > one right way to do it. [...] IMHO things are not that black or white: I think we have a tradeoff between almost 100% fool-proofness (which is basically the approach you describe)

Re: compiling on solaris 9

2007-09-15 Thread skaller
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 11:09 +0200, Sven Panne wrote: > On Friday 14 September 2007 16:33, Robert Andersson wrote: > > stdint.h seems to be unavailable on solaris 9. Looking at the > > rts/posix/OSMem.c file we find > > > > /* no C99 header stdint.h on OpenBSD? */ > > #if defined(openbsd_HOST_OS

Re: compiling on solaris 9

2007-09-15 Thread Sven Panne
On Friday 14 September 2007 16:33, Robert Andersson wrote: > stdint.h seems to be unavailable on solaris 9. Looking at the > rts/posix/OSMem.c file we find > > /* no C99 header stdint.h on OpenBSD? */ > #if defined(openbsd_HOST_OS) > typedef unsigned long my_uintptr_t; > #else > #include

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.8.1 Release Candidate

2007-09-15 Thread Sven Panne
On Friday 14 September 2007 15:42, Ian Lynagh wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:20:20PM +0200, Philip K.F. Hölzenspies wrote: > [...] > > /usr/share/aclocal/progsreiserfs.m4:13: warning: underquoted > > definition of AC_CHECK_LIBREISERFS > > run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' > > or see >