[darcs-devel] Running darcs in GHCi

[Zachary P. Landau]

> On my system (MacOSX-ppc) it's also necessary to add a compiler flag  
> to modify some bizarre behavior of Apple's gcc port. Adding CFLAGS='- 
> mmacosx-version-min=10.4' when running ./configure will transform  
> some symbols from _snprintf$LDBLStub (which statically-links OK, but  
> breaks ghci's dynamic linking) into _snprintf$LDBL128 (which works  
> fine either statically or dynamically).
> 
> After configuring with that flag added, I run 'make' to produce .o  
> files for all the C modules (as well as the Haskell modules, of  
> course... ghci seems happy to use them) and then
> 
>    ghci -cpp  -I. -DHAVE_CURSES -DHAVE_CURL  -package parsec -optl- 
> lcurl -optl-lssl -optl-lcrypto -optl-lz -optl-lcurses  darcs.lhs  
> maybe_relink.o atomic_create.o hscurl.o umask.o c_compat.o fpstring.o
> 
> will load everything into ghci and leave you at the *Main> prompt.

This worked perfectly for me (in Linux, for the record).  Thanks a lot,
this is certainly faster than building it every time.  I updated with
the wiki page with your updated ghci options and the note about MacOSX
here: http://darcs.net/DarcsWiki/DeveloperTips.

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Zachary P. Landau <kapheine at divineinvasion.net>
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