dons:
simonmar:
Thanks for all this. I recently went through the unregisterised bootstrap process myself (for amd64), and I've written some detailed instructions in the Building Guide - you might want to take a look and see if you have anything to add.
-------------------------------------------------------------- [3] i386-unknown-freebsd <- i386-unknown-openbsd --------------------------------------------------------------
Host: no changes!
Target: 1. Went through cleanly generating a compiler that dies with:
% ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace ghc-6.0.1: internal error: stg_ap_v_ret Please report this as a bug to glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org, or http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/
This is the same bug I've been unable to resolve in ports [1,2]
Ok!! I just bootstrapped 6.0.1 on i386-*-freebsd using unregisterised .hc source from i386-*-openbsd. I carefully did exactly what was in building.sgml, (which I had tried to before but I must then have been doing something systematically wrong :( Anyway, this gives me some confidence that all the failed ports were a systematic error on my part, not GHC's :D $ uname -msr FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE i386 $ ghc/ghc-6.0.1/ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace ghc-6.0.1: no input files Usage: For basic information, try the `--help' option. $ ghc/ghc-6.0.1/ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace hello.hs hello.hs:1: Failed to load interface for `Prelude': Could not find interface file for `Prelude' (use -v to see a list of the files searched for) I'll solve this library thing, try and build a compiler. And then try a sparc. Cheers, Don