Greetings! Finally, I have the honor to report my success in bootstrapping an unregisterised incarnation of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System version 5.04.3 on my PowerBook G4 running Gentoo Linux! Unfortunately I have not been able to bring to life the dynamic linker due to relocation troubles... Anyone familiar with ELF relocations on PowerPC Linux (i.e. as described in the System V ABI PowerPC Supplement) feel free to have a look at do_Elf_Rela_relocations() in ghc/rts/Linker.c! Shae Erisson generously lent me some webspace at http://shapr.homelinux.net/~pesco/ which now contains the following: ghc-4.08.2-hc-unreg.tar.bz2 unregisterised HC files for GHC 4.08.2 ghc-4.08.2-powerpc-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 an unregisterised binary-dist of GHC 4 without profiling libraries or documentation ghc-5.04.3-powerpc-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 an unregisterised binary-dist of GHC 5 with profiling libraries, documentation, and a broken GHCi ghc-5.04.3-linuxppc.diff a patch with all the changes I made to the GHC 5 sources from which the above compiler was built experience.txt a diary of what I did on my way from HC files to a working GHC 5; this might be worth keeping (maybe linked from the GHC commentary or so) Since the machine hosting this is Shae's home internet gateway, I'm kindly asking you to publish the files on the GHC webspace. Thanks, Sven Moritz Hallberg