On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 03:29:09PM +0200, Thanos Tsouanas wrote:
No need for 6.8, you can build 6.10 straight with 6.6.
Ok, I guess I didn't try hard enough..
Probably just --with-iconv-includes=/usr/local/include \ --with-iconv-libraries=/usr/local/lib missing to ./configure. Everything else should work fine nowadays.
IMHO cross-compilation is no go in this case since I hope I'm right assuming this is not supported in 6.10, but was fixed in 6.12 again.
Kind of. There are still issues with *real* porting to other platforms (#3472, probably more), but it's possible to create hc bootstrapping filesets and use them to bootstrap on the same platform. Even if this sounds kind of useless, it'll help a lot updating the OpenBSD port.
Then it's worth a shot. How would I create those hc bootstrapping filesets? Using the system's ghc-6.6.1?
If all you want is a working ghc-6.10, please don't waste your time with bootstrapping filesets. Just use ghc-6.6.1 and build ghc-6.10 from it (and, if you want to, build ghc-6.12 from ghc-6.10). BTW: if you're using my scripts, you'll probably also have to install (apart from ghc-6.6.1) alex, darcs, gmake, haddock, happy, hscolour and python (version 2.5). All available as precompiled packages for OpenBSD (amd64 and i386). Ciao, Kili