Simon Marlow schrieb:
You should be able to use any platform with a working GHC 6.6 to bootstrap from; x86/Linux is fine. Ian bootstraps GHC on new machines for fun(!), so I'm pretty sure the process has most of the kinks ironed out at the moment.
Ok, I've got a hc-file-bundle now. Comparing to http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.6/html/building/sec-porting-ghc.html#unreg... I made (had to make) the following differently: 1. I copied also ghcplatform.h from the target to the host's includes directory. Was that wrong? 2.) The directories glafp-utils and ghc do not exist in the ghc-6.6 sources so I simply called "make boot && make" in the top-level host directory. (It failed in rts as expected) 3.) For the final "make hc-file-bundle Project=Ghc" I had to delete one line in the toplevel Makefile: [..]libraries/haskell-src/Language/Haskell/Parser.hs >> hc-files-to-go haskell-src is not a part of ghc-6.6 (without extra libs) So far Christian