At some point in the past, someone wrote:
well, it did turn out to be a one-line fix :) but perhaps this isn't the proper way to do it, it does seem to have solved the problem for me though.
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 09:18:26AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
That's not really a "fix". It's a patch for the i386 distribution to make it work on on x86_64 platform, but it doesn't let you build GHC on that platform, for example. For that, some (probably small) changes to the build system would be required. I imagine you would do something like: ./configure --build=x86_64-unknown-linux --host=i386-unknown-linux and the build system picks up the difference between $BuildArch and $HostArch and adds the -m32 flags. Something like that.
A patch such as this would be very helpful for me, as I just want to use ghci/etc. on x86-64 and don't really care much about e.g. the very highest-quality codegen. I hacked around this in various ways to get the stock binary i386 distribution to run on x86-64, but would prefer to use something less hackish than shell script wrappers for gcc(1) and as(1) that pass the 32-bit forcing arguments... Also, the Debian ghc package on sparc64 (32-bit) seems to need some kind of update; ghc proper is fine, but ghci cores. Maybe I should file a bug. Alpha looks clean, though. I've not tried on ia64, ppc64, or mips64 yet. Running on my sparc64 box would be nice b/c it has more cpus, RAM, and registers. =) $ ssh analyticity Last login: Fri Oct 15 02:36:58 2004 from meromorphy Linux analyticity 2.6.9-rc2-mm3 #2 SMP Fri Sep 24 18:40:06 PDT 2004 sparc64 GNU/Linux $ ghci ___ ___ _ / _ \ /\ /\/ __(_) / /_\// /_/ / / | | GHC Interactive, version 6.2.1, for Haskell 98. / /_\\/ __ / /___| | http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ \____/\/ /_/\____/|_| Type :? for help. Loading package base ... linking ... done. zsh: 1282 segmentation fault ghci -- wli