Christian Maeder wrote:
Could you create a ticket for this (or is there one already)?
There have been a few tickets, some still outstanding, about leopard powerpc failures.
I'm willing to recompile ghc-6.8.2 with different options or patches on PPC Tiger, but even compiling via-C does not work (not to mention bootstrapping from hc sources).
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2012
(Only few seem to be interested in getting PPC bugs fixed. Is this architecture dying out?)
I submitted a patch that went into ghc-6.8.x to help fix assembly code generation (to keey the new cursed 'ld' happy) on powerpc 10.5.x Apple stopped creating and selling new PPC machines some time ago. But I think nearly half of the running machines are still PPC. But only people with previous PPC hardware who buy new OS X 10.5 and also want ghc-6.8 are getting bitten.
Cheers Christian
Does ghc-6.8.1 or ghc-6.6.1 work on PPC leopard and can be used for compiling ghc-6.8.2?
The ghc-6.6.1 I had under 10.4 still works like a champ after upgrading to 10.5 -- Chris