jgoerzen:

Hi,

I am trying to build ghc 6.2.1 for AIX. I successfully bootstrapped an unregisterised ghc-inplace from an i386 Linux box today.

I am now trying to build a real ghc on AIX. I've had endless trouble, and finally decided to put this in mk/build.mk:

GhcUnregisterised = YES GhcWithNativeCodeGen = NO GhcWithInterpreter = NO

That made things run much smoother. In fact, it made it to libraries/base. Now I get this:

rm -f GHC/Base.o; if [ ! -d GHC/Base_split ]; then mkdir GHC/Base_split; else /o pt/freeware/bin/find GHC/Base_split -name '*.o' -print | xargs rm -f __rm_food; fi; ../../ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace -H16m -O -fglasgow-exts -cpp -Iinclude -#include HsBase.h -funbox-strict-fields -package-name base -O -Rghc-timing -split-objs -c GHC/Base.lhs -o GHC/Base.o -ohi GHC/Base.hi /tmp/ghc82602.hc:2593: warning: this decimal constant is unsigned only in ISO C9 0 /tmp/ghc82602.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ghc82602.s:128: Error: symbol `__stg_split_marker' is already defined /tmp/ghc82602.s:287: Error: symbol `__stg_split_marker' is already defined /tmp/ghc82602.s:448: Error: symbol `__stg_split_marker' is already defined

And about a hundred more. Ideas?

Try turning of split objs. They don't work on all platforms. Add: SplitObjs = NO

Oh, BTW, I had to put a script named gcc on my path. It says this:

exec /usr/local/bin/gcc -mpowerpc -maix32 -mminimal-toc "$@"

Otherwise, it trips all over itself whenever it encounters assembly (it's a powerpc cpu but gcc generates power code by default). And the link fails (toc overflow -- mminimal-toc fixes that.)

Good idea.

The system:

AIX 5.1L PowerPC64 CPU (running in 32-bit mode) GCC 3.3.2 GHC 6.2.1

Thanks,

John Goerzen