simonmar:
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
simonmar:
I was a bit too soon reporting the sparc-sun-solaris2, two attempts have died with stg_ap_v_ret. Same result sparc-*-openbsd.
Also with mips-sgi-irix65 . An attempt died with stg_ap_v_ret .
I'm trying to follow Ian's steps....but please, report any change you can make on the doc "Bootstraping GHC from hc-files".
Aha! I *think* I've figured out what's going wrong.
The stg_ap_v_ret failure is caused by info tables being generated for the wrong endianness. This isn't supposed to happen, because we should be cross-compiling for the correct endianness, but I'm guessing that the config.h copied over from the target to the host machine has been overwritten during the build process with an incorrect one.
Try this: before doing 'cd H/ghc && make boot && make' on the host machine, do 'touch ghc/includes/config.h'. Check after the build that this file hasn't been overwritten.
Looks like that was it! I've just built a working unreg compiler on sparc-unknown-openbsd, which I have not been able to do previously. So get porting :) -- Don