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diff --git a/dev-haskell/bits-atomic/metadata.xml b/dev-haskell/bits-atomic/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..0e02475e5f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/dev-haskell/bits-atomic/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> +<pkgmetadata> + <herd>haskell</herd> + <longdescription> + Atomic operations including CAS (compare-and-swap), fetch & add and variants + suitable for low-level shared-memory synchronization. + + The implementation is using GCC's builtin atomic operations (available in GCC >= + 4) in C wrappers called through the FFI. See these links for background: + + * GCC manual: <http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Atomic-Builtins.html> + + * GCC wiki: <http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Atomic> + + /Portability/: This package is primarily developed on a Linux system, but + should work wherever GCC >= 4 is available. It has been confirmed as working + on OSX. On Windows, it should work with Cygwin but currently fails for + vanilla Haskell-Platform 2010.1.0.0 as it still packages GCC 3.x. An + installer for updated versions of GCC is available at + <http://www.mingw.org/> and should make this package work in connection with + Haskell-Platform. Feedback on compatibility would be appreciated. + + /Testing:/ The following commands can be used to compile and run the test suite: + + > cabal unpack bits-atomic && cd bits-atomic-* # if not yet locally available + > cabal configure -ftest + > cabal build + > cabal test + + /Recent changes/: + + * 0.1.3: Documentation updates, especially on portability. No functional + changes. + + * 0.1.2: Avoid using System.FilePath in Setup.hs to fix build failure on hackage + </longdescription> +</pkgmetadata> |