Fri Nov 23 13:15:59 PST 2007  Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>

Patch from Brian P. O'Hanlon

Slackware puts the stylesheets in /usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets*
Patch from Andrea Rossato.

On Mac OS, ctime_r is not declared in time.h if _POSIX_C_SOURCE is defined. We
work around this by providing a declaration ourselves.

We now have various flags that need to be passed to gcc, but only if
the local gcc version supports them.  So instead of wiring this
knowledge into ghc when it is built, we now put these "extra gcc
flags" into a text file in $libdir, extra-gcc-flags, which is created
by configure.  It is also created by the configure script of a binary
distribution, so a binary dist is independent of the gcc version used
to build it.

Hopefully I got the binary-dist stuff right, but binary dists aren't
currently working so we'll need to come back and check this.

ghc fails to build if you use an external gmp library. This is because
ghc requires the header file gmp.h, which used to be provided by the
internal gmp source code.  The file gmp.h is no longer part of the
gmp source code, but is generated as part of the build procedure.
If an external gmp is specified, the internal gmp is not build and the
gmp.h file never gets generated.

Of course, it was a bad idea anyway to use a header file from a potentially
different version of the library.

The patch sets HAVE_LIB_GMP if the gmp library is found during configuration
and conditionalizes including the library header file on it.

Bindists should now work again, when doing "make install" at least.
"make in-place" is probably still broken.

It used to be the case that
    autoreconf
in the root would also autoreconf in any libraries that need it, and
    ./configure
in the root would also configure all the libraries.

However, cabal now configures the libraries, so they were getting
configured twice.

Thus now a small shellscript, boot, autoreconfs the root and all libraries
that need it, and ./configure in the root doesn't configure the libraries.

* configure can be told where ld is
* make an hsc2hs-inplace.bat
* tell Setup configure about foo.bar rather than foo on Windows
* tell Setup configure to pass a --with-cc=$(CC) argument to ./configure

This avoids recomputing them via $(shell) each time make expands one
of these variables, which is very expensive (0.3s or so) on Windows.

This lets the threaded RTS use SIGVTALRM rather than SIGALRM for its
interval timer signal, so the threaded and non-threaded RTS are
compatible.  It unfortunately doesn't completely fix #850/#1156, for
that we really have to use a restartable sleep instead of usleep().

Also I cleaned up the timer API a little: instead of returning an
error value that ultimately gets ignored, we now report errors from
system calls and exit.

Previously one had to edit configure.ac to build a release version. This is
evil, so one can now specify this on the configure invocation line like:

   RELEASE=YES ./configure

Note that non-released versions are still the default.

For non-release builds, we want to append a date to the version number
(e.g. 6.7.20070206).  Previously this was done by the nightly build
script, this new method figures out the snapshot version by querying
the darcs repository and finding the date of the most recent patch
(actually it finds the most recent of the last 100 patches, but that
should be good enough).  This is done by the configure script.

To handle source distributions, we create a file VERSION in the
top-level directory that contains the version number, and ship this in
the source distribution.  The configure script picks up the version
from this file if it doesn't see a _darcs directory.

Fixes trac #952: Haskell requires consistent overflow behaviour, which
gcc doesn't give without this flag.

Basic -fvia-C code generation is there, not much testing.

Apparently, the original fix never really worked due to typos and oversights.

Add GhcRtsWithPapi=YES to mk/build.mk to turn it on

Fri Jul 28 06:49:35 EDT 2006  simonpj@microsoft.com