On 13 February 2005 21:30, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:11:48PM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote a message of 17 lines which said:

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We are finally at the release candidate stage for GHC 6.4. Snapshots with versions 6.4.20050209 and later should be considered release candidates for 6.4.

One of my platforms is still not recognized:

preston:~/tmp/ghc-6.4.20050212 % ./configure configure: loading site script /usr/local/etc/config.site configure: creating cache /usr/local/var/tmp/config.cache checking build system type... sparc64-unknown-netbsd2.0.1 checking host system type... sparc64-unknown-netbsd2.0.1 checking target system type... sparc64-unknown-netbsd2.0.1 Unrecognised platform: sparc64-unknown-netbsd2.0.1

Now, I understand that it is a rather uncommon platform but I would like to run darcs on it.

ghc runs fine on my other UltraSparc 10, which runs Debian/GNU/Linux. hugs runs fine on the Sparc/NetBSD.

I've read

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/sec-porting-ghc.htm l#SEC-BOOTING-FROM-HC

but it is still unclear for me. When I compile ghc on the Sparc / Debian, no ".hc" files are produced.

You really need to go through the cross-compilation process to get GHC built on your platform. Follow the instructions in section 10.2 to get an unregisterised build, and from that you can build GHC again to get a registerised version. (in theory it's possible to cross-compile straight to a registerised version since your target architecture is already supported, but we haven't gone to the trouble of testing and documenting that process, so you'd be on your own). Cheers, Simon