making 6.6-candidate

[Simon Marlow]

Serge D. Mechveliani wrote:
> Dear GHC team,
> 
> I am trying to make  ghc-6.5.20060831  from source  by  ghc-6.4.1
> under  Linux, i386-unknown.
> 
> It has got to
> 
> /home/mechvel/ghc/6.4.1/inst/bin/ghc -H16m -O  -istage1/utils 
>  -istage1/basicTypes  -istage1/types  -istage1/hsSyn  -istage1/prelude
>   -istage1/rename  -istage1/typecheck  -istage1/deSugar  -istage1/coreSyn 
>   -istage1/specialise  -istage1/simplCore  -istage1/stranal  
>   -istage1/stgSyn  -istage1/simplStg  -istage1/codeGen  -istage1/main 
>  -istage1/profiling  -istage1/parser  -istage1/cprAnalysis  
>  -istage1/ndpFlatten  -istage1/iface  -istage1/cmm  -istage1/nativeGen 
>  -Istage1 -cpp -fglasgow-exts -fno-generics -Rghc-timing -I. -IcodeGen 
>  -InativeGen -Iparser -package unix -ignore-package lang -recomp 
>  -Rghc-timing 
>  -H16M '-#include "cutils.h"' -i../compat -ignore-package Cabal  
>  -funbox-strict-fields 
>  -c parser/Lexer.hs -o stage1/parser/Lexer.o  -ohi stage1/parser/Lexer.hi
> 
>  
> and looped at this point during about 50 minutes, without any report.

50 minutes does seem like a rather long time...  I've never seen this here.  You 
might try adding +RTS -A16m -RTS to GhcStage1HcOpts in mk/build.mk, that should 
help speed up the build a bit (if you have enough memory).

Cheers,
	Simon