[hoc-users] Re: building hoc 0.7 on os 10.3 with ghc 6.4

[Andre P. <oz...@al...>]

On 01/04/2005, at 1:22 AM, Andre Pang wrote:

> On 27/03/2005, at 3:27 PM, Ruben Zilibowitz wrote:
>
>> Is hoc compatible with ghc version 6.4?
>
> As Wolfgang has mentioned, it's not compatible with 6.4 yet due to 
> some Template Haskell changes, module changes and package changes.  
> I'm working on getting it working with 6.4 over the next few days, so 
> expect an update soon ...

Hi guys, if you check out the latest HOC from CVS, it should work OK 
with GHC 6.4.  It's not packaged up into a downloadable tarball, but 
the only difference between the tarball and CVS is that you only have 
to run the very simple ./autogen.sh script when checking it out of CVS, 
so it's really not a big deal.

One tip: if you're packaging a binary for distribution, see 
Samples/UniqSort/Makefile for a magic flag to enable dead code 
stripping with the Mac OS X linker.  It _greatly_ reduces the binary 
size (13MB -> 600k), but takes a very, very long time to link your 
program (~30 minutes, in some cases), so it's only worthwhile doing if 
you're planning to distribute it.


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