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Patch from: Roman Leshchinskiy

They aren't built as part of a GHC build anyway, it doesn't make much
sense to include them in checkouts or source tarballs.

It's an internal module used by non-GHC implementations only.

Fixes ffi011(opt) on x86_64.  I don't know why this has only just
appeared today, it's apparently been broken for some time.

This is mainly for the benefit of Solaris. I'll fix this properly later.

We only support Sparc V9 and better as V8 lacks an atomic CAS instruction
which we need for SMP. This means that we have to pass -mcpu=v9 to GCC when
compiling and assembling. Hardcoding the flag is hackish but seems to be
our best bet at the moment. It can still be overridden by the user as GCC
picks the best -mcpu flag regardless of the ordering.

See comments for details.  Fixes assertion failures in stage 3 build
which appeared after recent closeMutex() addidion.  May fix other
shutdown issues.

Contributed by: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>

patch from #878

Not much has changed really: just the removal of the overlap
restriction, and the re-instatement of the requirement that
-package-name must be used when compiling a package now.

The following packages are now "core" packages:

  base, Cabal, haskell98, readline, regex-base, regex-compat
  regex-posix, stm, template-haskell, unix, Win32

Core packages are those packages required to bootstrap GHC, or are
closely tied to GHC (stm, template-haskell).  These are the packages
that will be provided in a source distribution from now on.

All other packages are classified as "extra" packages.  As far as
binary distributions and nightly builds go, nothing will change -
we'll still build and include all these packages in the distributions.

NOTE: 'sh darcs-all get' will now get the core packages only.  To get
the extra packages too, use 'sh darcs-all --extra get'.