*BSD support in 6.8.3

[Gregory Wright]

Hi Simon,

On May 29, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Simon Marlow wrote:

> Ok, I've now modified the patch and attached a new version to the  
> ticket:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/ticket/2013/2013.patch
>
> *BSD folks please test.
>

I built the 20080529 snapshot with this patch and my light testing of  
ghci
showed no problems (FreeBSD 7.0/x86_64).

I will built it again tonight in a darcs checkout and run the test  
suite.  I should
be able to send back any tweaks to the patch in the next two days.

-Greg