Hi Apostolos, On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 09:07:56AM -0400, asyropoulos@aol.com wrote:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.4.1/html/building/sec-porting-ghc.html#sec...
Some community members have made Solaris binary distributions in the past. It would be easier to start from one of those rather than trying to port GHC. It looks like the latest one is here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_0_3#x86solaris
checking build system type... i386-pc-solaris2.11 checking host system type... i386-pc-solaris2.11 checking target system type... i386-pc-solaris2.11 HOST: i386-pc-solaris2.11 Can't work out build platform
Not e that configure.ac contains a section on Solaris:
You probably need to normalise solaris2* to solaris2 in aclocal.m4 (search for "solaris"). Thanks Ian