[GHC] #10610: Issues face while building glassgow haskell compiler package on power - ppc64le - architecture

7 Jul 2015

      #10610: Issues face while building glassgow haskell compiler package on power -
ppc64le - architecture
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              Reporter:              |             Owner:
  amitkumar_ghatwal                  |            Status:  new
                  Type:  bug         |         Milestone:
              Priority:  normal      |           Version:  7.6.3
             Component:  Compiler    |  Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple
              Keywords:              |   Type of failure:  None/Unknown
          Architecture:              |        Blocked By:
  Unknown/Multiple                   |   Related Tickets:
             Test Case:              |
              Blocking:              |
Differential Revisions:              |
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 I am a newbie to GHC platform. I am trying to port GHC to my power
 architecture , and whilst following the below:

 1.      wget http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.6.3/ghc-7.6.3-src.tar.bz2
 2.      tar xjvf ghc-7.6.3-src.tar.bz2
 3.      cd ghc-7.6.3
 4.       ./configure --enable-hc-boot --enable-hc-boot-unregisterised
 5.      make
 6.      sudo make install

 I am getting below errors while performing above step 4 :

 configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-hc-boot-unregisterised
 checking for gfind... no
 checking for find... /usr/bin/find
 checking for sort... /usr/bin/sort
 checking for ghc... no
 checking build system type... ./config.guess: unable to guess system type

 This script, last modified 2012-02-10, has failed to recognize
 the operating system you are using. It is advised that you
 download the most up to date version of the config scripts from

 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess...
 and
 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.sub;h...

 If the version you run (./config.guess) is already up to date, please
 send the following data and any information you think might be
 pertinent to  in order to provide the needed
 information to handle your system.

 config.guess timestamp = 2012-02-10

 uname -m = ppc64le
 uname -r = 3.16.0-23-generic
 uname -s = Linux
 uname -v = #31-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 21 17:55:08 UTC 2014

 /usr/bin/uname -p =
 /bin/uname -X     =

 hostinfo               =
 /bin/universe          =
 /usr/bin/arch -k       =
 /bin/arch              =
 /usr/bin/oslevel       =
 /usr/convex/getsysinfo =

 UNAME_MACHINE = ppc64le
 UNAME_RELEASE = 3.16.0-23-generic
 UNAME_SYSTEM  = Linux
 UNAME_VERSION = #31-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 21 17:55:08 UTC 2014
 configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one

 My system arch is as below :
 $ lscpu
 Architecture:          ppc64le
 Byte Order:            Little Endian
 CPU(s):                2
 On-line CPU(s) list:   0,1
 Thread(s) per core:    1
 Core(s) per socket:    2
 Socket(s):             1
 NUMA node(s):          1
 Model:                 IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu)
 Hypervisor vendor:     KVM
 Virtualization type:   full
 L1d cache:             64K
 L1i cache:             32K
 NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0,1

 Any pointers in above will be greatly appreciated.

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Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10610
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