On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 08:56:00AM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
On 04/11/2009 15:08, Colin Adams wrote:
When GHC 6.12.1 is released, I'm going to have a go at porting it to DragonFly BSD (32-bit incarnation). Is the porting page on the wikiup-to-date?
There are apparently some difficulties with porting right now:
Unfortunately I didn't have much time after the OpenBSD p2k9 in Budapesst (where I got a little bit further with the bootstrapping), but I remember that I got parts of stage 1 built but then something in utils/* didn't compile. I hope to have a look this weekend (and to find the patches I wrote in Budapest). There are probably just some more pattern rules missing for the .hc file bootstrapping.
Depending on how similar the host/target archtectures are, it might be possible to follow the instructions to get a working port.
Once the make rules are complete, the Linker may be tricky (it already contains #ifdef'd sections specific to FreeBSD and OpenBSD), but I don't expect other parts of GHC to need tweaking.
We need to have another run at doing a port and iron out the bugs in the procedure.
At least I tried to correct some of the hints on the porting wiki page, but it's obviously still incomplete. Ciao, Kili