Hi Uwe, On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 14:04 -0700, Uwe Hollerbach wrote:
I'm trying for now to build ghc 6.6.1 -- so I started by upgrading gcc to 3.4.6. That's working. So, with that in place, I went to the "porting ghc to a new arch" page and started going through the steps. I'm using a laptop running linux as the "host" computer, so that's i386-unknown-linux, some Fedora core derivative. It's using gcc 3.4.4.
I think I did all the initial stuff right, but in the section in the porting guide where it says to start diving into all the subdirectories and do a bunch of "make boot && make", I start getting errors, and by the time it says to do that in .../libraries, it just croaks.
I did a GHC 6.6 bootstrap for Debian/armel a while ago and ran into some minor issues with regard to slight inaccuracies in the documentation and glitches in the GHC build system. A brief overview of what I did is given in a message I sent to the debian-arm list. Unfortunately, I never got around to sending a detailed report upstream :( http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2007/11/msg00038.html I don't know how much of that is applicable when building for a non-linux target, but perhaps it gives you a few pointers. Alternatively, you could make build logs/error messages available, so we can perhaps figure out what's going wrong together. Regards, Rene -- Rene Wagner rw at nelianur dot org http://nelianur.org