Re: ghc for PC Solaris

Christian Maeder wrote:

I would like to get ghc (version 6.6) working for our students. The machines are ATHLON-64 with Solaris 10. (SunOS 5.10 Generic_118855-19 i86pc i386 i86pc)

If someone has a binary distribution of any ghc version (that is able to build ghc-6.6), please let me know.

But I would also try to build ghc from hc-sources. What is the best platform I could get hc-sources from? We have sparc-sun-solaris2.10 and i686-pc-linux-gnu ourselves.

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. Cheers, Simon