shimweasel

... yeah, i'm not going to apologise for that title. It's been one of those days. Anyway, to recap:

1. GHC HEAD doesn't build on Mac OS X at all at the moment
2. GHC HEAD won't build on Linux with --enable-shared - in an interesting failure mode on my machine, the build script actually loops. The mind boggles.
3. GHC HEAD will build on Linux without --enable-shared. Puppies and rainbows, how lovely, but given that the whole purpose was to load libraries dynamically into a ruby interpreter, perhaps not as thrill-making as it could possibly have been.

I've been poking jhc a bit, and it could possibly be useful - it compiles down to C code, so it should be possible to build it as a dynamic library. It appears to be failing on Mac at the moment, sadly, but perhaps it'll work on Ubuntu. Onwards, upwards, downwards, whatever.