12 Aug
2008
12 Aug
'08
6:27 a.m.
On 12 Aug 2008, at 11:19, Jules Bean wrote:
Conor McBride wrote:
This sounds like bad news to me. I wonder how broken this G5 ghc is for a G4. Perhaps it should be labelled G5 rather than PowerPC in the large print. I'm quite scared about trying to build ghc: I worry that it may involve confronting large areas of my ignorance. I'm running Mac OS X 10.4.11 on a 1.5GHz PowerPC G4 PowerBook with 768MB of memory. I've got gcc 4.0.0. I'm using the 6.8.3 build whose entry on this page
FWIW, I use ghc on my G4 and I got it by compiling from MacPorts.
It took the best part of day, but the resulting binary works.
I'm not sure whirl is the right word, but I'll give it one anyway. Cheers Conor