diff --git a/lang/ghc/Makefile b/lang/ghc/Makefile
index 5cc86a0a5b4..fd14503256d 100644
--- a/lang/ghc/Makefile
+++ b/lang/ghc/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.9 2003/08/14 21:38:36 avsm Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.10 2003/08/21 19:51:23 espie Exp $
 # Based on Simon Marlow's port script for FreeBSD:
 # $FreeBSD: ports/lang/ghc/Makefile,v 1.13 2002/08/22 12:53:38 obraun Exp $
 #
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ USE_GMAKE=	Yes
 CONFIGURE_STYLE=gnu dest
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--with-ghc=${STAGE0}/ghc/driver/ghc-inplace
 
+# XXX fiddle with this if the 4.08 compiler burps for you
+MAKE_FLAGS=	TWEAKED_SIZE=80M
+
 CONFIGURE_ENV+=	CPPFLAGS="-I${LOCALBASE}/include" \
 		LDFLAGS="-L${LOCALBASE}/lib" \
 		LOCALBASE="${LOCALBASE}"
diff --git a/lang/ghc/patches/patch-ghc_compiler_Makefile b/lang/ghc/patches/patch-ghc_compiler_Makefile
index 8c4e2df70a0..8b0da3d0c5b 100644
--- a/lang/ghc/patches/patch-ghc_compiler_Makefile
+++ b/lang/ghc/patches/patch-ghc_compiler_Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$OpenBSD: patch-ghc_compiler_Makefile,v 1.2 2003/08/01 14:03:40 avsm Exp $
+$OpenBSD: patch-ghc_compiler_Makefile,v 1.3 2003/08/21 19:51:23 espie Exp $
 Note: -H sets the initial size of the garbage collected heap used
 by the compiler to compiled a Haskell file. There appears to be
 some kind of garbage collection bug in  the stage1 compiler build
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ was determined experimentally.
  SRC_CC_OPTS += -Iparser -I. -O
  SRC_HC_OPTS += -recomp $(GhcHcOpts) $(GhcStage$(stage)HcOpts)
 -SRC_HC_OPTS += -H16M
-+SRC_HC_OPTS += -H80M
++SRC_HC_OPTS += -H${TWEAKED_SIZE}
  
  ifeq "$(BootingFromHc)" "YES"
  SRC_CC_OPTS += -D__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=$(ProjectVersionInt)