Changeset 5496 for INSTALL

Timestamp:

07/12/05 15:14:26 (3 years ago)

Author:

autrijus

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Message:

* JeffaCake? notes that there is now Linux x86_64 GHC snapshots,

and we should reflect this in INSTALL.

Files:

• INSTALL (modified) (2 diffs)

INSTALL

@@ -87 +87 @@
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-Until GHC 6.4.1 is released, users with x86_64 (64 bit Athlon) CPU's should
-consider using a development snapshot of GHC.  GHC 6.4 had bugs on x86_64
-which break garbage collection and rules (regexps).  These bugs were fixed
-in GHC CVS by around 11-May.  There are hints on using snapshots at the end
-of this section.
+Until GHC 6.4.1 is released, Linux users with x86_64 (64 bit Athlon) CPUs
+should consider using a development snapshot of GHC:
+
+    http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/
+    
+Look for files ending with "x86_64-unknown-linux", for example:
+
+    ghc-6.4.1.20050711-x86_64-unknown-linux.tar.bz2
+
+GHC 6.4 had bugs on x86_64 which break garbage collection and rules (regexps).
+These bugs were fixed in GHC CVS by around 11-May.  There are hints on using
+snapshots at the end of this section.
 
 Here are the known problems:
@@ -98 +105 @@
 users may see crashes complaining about "strange objects".
 
-Until GHC 6.4.1 is released, a partial workaround is to avoid GC by
-requesting a large heap, using either command line arguments:
+A partial workaround is to avoid GC by requesting a large heap, using either
+command line arguments:
 
     ./pugs +RTS -A200M -RTS