Re: GHC porting to FreeBSD-amd64 progress report

Wilhelm B. Kloke wrote:

Simon Marlow schrieb:

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Perhaps you compiled mkDerivedConstants as a 32-bit executable?

Yes. I was not attentive enough.

But now I have got a working compiler on FreeBSD-amd64-7.0. If anybody is interested, I shall prepare a package of the installed binaries.

If you can build a binary distribution, we'll happily upload it to haskell.org and make it available for download. Just 'make binary-dist' should produce a suitable distribution. However, you might want to wait for 6.8.2 in the next few days, as we fixed several important bugs.

The compiler is good enough to compile itself now. Though there are problems remaining. One the programs I tested the computation of Meertens numbers from Bird/Wadler's book. This program segfaults on amd64, but not on i386.

You'll probably find that the testsuite shows up this (and maybe other) bugs. Start with a full testsuite run, is my advice. Cheers, Simon