OK-- I'm probably not the most qualified person to try to port GHC to the Alpha, but my attempt begins... To get started, I want to generate .hc files using my existing ghc-5.00.2 installation on my i386-unknown-linux box. I tried to follow the steps in http://www.cs.uu.nl/~atze/Programming/GHC/cp-b1-b2-all as follows. First I create a shadow directory tree and configure: mkdir c1 c1-obj cd c1 lndir ../ghc-5.00.2 ./configure --prefix=$PWD-obj Second I create c1/mk/build.mk: GhcHcOpts += -H24m -keep-hc-files-too -optc-DNO_REGS -optc-DUSE_MINIINTERPRETER -fno-asm-mangling -funregisterised -fvia-C GhcRtsHcOpts += -optc-DNO_REGS -optc-DUSE_MINIINTERPRETER -fno-asm-mangling -funregisterised -fvia-C SplitObjs = NO Then I ran "make". It stopped in c1/ghc/rts, at: ../../ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace -optc-O -optc-O2 -optc-fomit-frame-pointer -optc-Wall -optc-W -optc-Wstrict-prototypes -optc-Wmissing-prototypes -optc-Wmissing-declarations -optc-Winline -optc-Waggregate-return -optc-Wbad-function-cast -optc-DCOMPILING_RTS -ldl -I../includes -I. -Iparallel -O2 -optc-DNO_REGS -optc-DUSE_MINIINTERPRETER -fno-asm-mangling -funregisterised -fvia-C -DCOMPILING_RTS -static -c Adjustor.c -o Adjustor.o Segmentation fault (core dumped) Indeed, even running ../../ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace by itself, or running c1/ghc/compiler/ghc-5.00.2 by itself, gives a seg fault. Being unfamiliar with the build system, I would appreciate any advice on how to debug this problem. Or has the .hc generation procedure changed between ghc4 and ghc5? -- Edit this signature at http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ken/sig no