On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 05:50:49PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
No, actually I'd like to have GHC, because many libraries I want to use depend on it. But good that you point this out, maybe it would be possible to have NHC compile GHC... Although the FAQ says it would most probably not work.
It most *definitely* would not work ;-)
To bootstrap the unregisterised version, I suggest starting from version 4.08.2. The reason is that bootstrapping more recent versions from .hc files is significantly more difficult (but hopefully should get easier again soon...).
OK, be it 4.08.2 then. I see there are HC files for x86 and Sparc, how do I get (produce) them for PowerPC?
You need to start from unregisterised .hc files, which you have to build on a supported platform (eg. Linux/x86). Here's a message that has some details on how to do the bootstrap: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2000-October/0014 45.html (which coincidentally is a reply to another guy who asked about PPC/Linux...) Cheers, Simon