OK, I've made a bit of progress here. Again, I have very little understanding of the binary-dist system so I hope this isn't nonsense. The utils/ghc-cabal/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-cabal and utils/ghc-pwd/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-pwd executables have .a extensions, which is a bug, but more importantly are built for arm and thus can't be used. lukexi@thopminkingscape:~/Code/ghc (ghc-7.8 *=)$ file utils/ghc-cabal/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-cabal.a utils/ghc-cabal/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-cabal.a: Mach-O executable arm lukexi@thopminkingscape:~/Code/ghc (ghc-7.8 *=)$ file utils/ghc-pwd/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-pwd.a utils/ghc-pwd/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-pwd.a: Mach-O executable arm So I tried switching them to the inplace/bin/ghc-cabal and utils/ghc-pwd/dist-boot/ghc-pwd copies, respectively, with this patch: http://lpaste.net/99485 This let me build the .tar.gz without errors, and ./configure it fine, but make install fails here now. "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" register libraries/ghc-prim dist-install "/usr/local/lib/arm-apple-darwin10ghc-7.8.20140129/bin/ghc" "/usr/local/lib/arm-apple-darwin10ghc-7.8.20140129/bin/ghc-pkg" "/usr/local/lib/arm-apple-darwin10ghc-7.8.20140129" '' '/usr/local' '/usr/local/lib/arm-apple-darwin10ghc-7.8.20140129' '/usr/local/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries' NO ghc-cabal: Bad interface file: dist-install/build/GHC/CString.hi magic number mismatch: old/corrupt interface file? (wanted 33214052, got 129742) http://lpaste.net/99486 (looks like a missing dash in the CrossCompilePrefix as well but that's a minor issue) Does this offer any clues? Cheers Luke On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Luke Iannini <lukexipd@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm all set to release binaries for GHC iOS (arm and i386 simulator), but didn't realize the "make binary-dist" machinery is broken for cross-compilers.
I'm starting work on it but will be fumbling in the dark a bit so if anyone has any knowledge or link or ideas on where to look, I'd love to hear them!
Here's the output of "make binary-dist" on a tree after a successful "make" for arm-apple-darwin10 (which will "make install" perfectly). http://lpaste.net/99475
Cheers Luke