Simon Marlow schrieb:

Perhaps you compiled mkDerivedConstants as a 32-bit executable?

Yes. I was not attentive enough. But now I have got a working compiler on FreeBSD-amd64-7.0. If anybody is interested, I shall prepare a package of the installed binaries. The compiler is good enough to compile itself now. Though there are problems remaining. One the programs I tested the computation of Meertens numbers from Bird/Wadler's book. This program segfaults on amd64, but not on i386. Here it is: module Main(main,primes,sieve,meertens) where -- a Meertens number is one whose decimal representation conincides with -- its Gödel number -- The 1st is 81312000 = 2^8*3*5^3*7*11^2 main :: IO() main = do putStr ( show ( meertens 8 ) ) -- putStr ( show ( meertens 9 ) ) primes= sieve [2..] sieve (p : nos) = p: sieve(remove (multsof p) nos ) where multsof p n = n `rem` p == 0 remove p = filter (not.p) powers p = iterate (p*) 1 meertens k = [n| (n,g) <- candidates (0,1),n == g ] where candidates = concat . map ( search pps ) . tail . labels ps ps : pps = map powers ( take k primes ) search [] x = [x] search (ps : pps) x = concat ( map ( search pps ) (labels ps x )) labels ps (n,g) = zip ( map (m+) ds)(chop(map(g*)ps)) where m = 10 * n chop = takeWhile(< 10000000000) ds = [0..9] -- Dipl.-Math. Wilhelm Bernhard Kloke Institut fuer Arbeitsphysiologie an der Universitaet Dortmund Ardeystrasse 67, D-44139 Dortmund, Tel. 0231-1084-257 PGP: http://vestein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de/~wb/mypublic.key

Simon Marlow schrieb:

Wilhelm B. Kloke wrote:

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However, you might want to wait for 6.8.2 in the next few days, as we fixed several important bugs.

I have found a couple of small bugs regarding FreeBSD. Changing the configure process would be helpful. FreeBSD-amd64 is identified as x86_64-unknown-freebsd, but the entry in configure uses amd64-*-freebsd*r; this should be made consistent. The FreeBSD cc needs -L/usr/local/lib and -I/usr/local/lib to find the native gmp (and possibly others, too) library. I tried to find out a way to use the FreeBSD-i386 ghc, which runs fine on FreeBSD-amd64, for bootstrap. The problem in this case is to substitute the 32bit assembler and linker instead of the 64bit versions. In case of the assembler the script as32 was usable like this one: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/cc -Xassembler -32 $* But I failed to figure out the right ld32 script. -- Dipl.-Math. Wilhelm Bernhard Kloke Institut fuer Arbeitsphysiologie an der Universitaet Dortmund Ardeystrasse 67, D-44139 Dortmund, Tel. 0231-1084-257 PGP: http://vestein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de/~wb/mypublic.key