Re: Job for someone: make a VM image for GHC development

2009-06-05 Thread Philip K.F.
Dear Simon, et al. I've looked around trying to pick up information on tiny installations of Linux. It seems most modern distributions think 200MB is a pretty barebone installation. There's a claim by someone that (s)he got a Tiny Gentoo installation into 5MB. I'll be looking into that this

Re: Job for someone: make a VM image for GHC development

2009-06-05 Thread Simon Marlow
Hi Philip, Thanks for looking into this! On 05/06/2009 08:46, Philip K.F. Hölzenspies wrote: I've looked around trying to pick up information on tiny installations of Linux. It seems most modern distributions think 200MB is a pretty barebone installation. There's a claim by someone that (s)he

is the library iconv necessary for haskeline?

2009-06-05 Thread Christian Maeder
Hi, building ghc-6.10.3 under x86 solaris eventually failed with: Configuring ghc-bin-6.10.3... cabal-bin: At least the following dependencies are missing: haskeline -any gmake[3]: *** [boot.stage.2] Error 1 I think, haskeline is not build because libiconv is missing: -bash-3.00$ ./Setup

Re: Job for someone: make a VM image for GHC development

2009-06-05 Thread Sebastian Fischer
On Jun 2, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Simon Marlow wrote: We'd probably need to find a suitably minimal Linux install, or start from an existing minimal Linux VM image. There is a german article [1] how to combine BusyBox [2] with a linux kernel to get a full (restricted, but small) linux system.

RE: Three patches for cabal

2009-06-05 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Since there has been little comment on this, my preliminary conclusion is that no one cares much what the flag is called. So I've left the flag unchanged, but make the manual mention it in the right place. If pressure builds to change the flag name, I'm happy to do so. Simon | -Original

Re: is the library iconv necessary for haskeline?

2009-06-05 Thread Judah Jacobson
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Christian Maeder christian.mae...@dfki.de wrote: Hi, building ghc-6.10.3 under x86 solaris eventually failed with: Configuring ghc-bin-6.10.3... cabal-bin: At least the following dependencies are missing: haskeline -any gmake[3]: *** [boot.stage.2] Error 1