On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:21:19PM -0700, Donn Cave wrote:
So here I am with 64 bit Athlon hardware, running amd64 NetBSD (a.k.a. x86_64), reasonably motivated to compile Haskell. From what I make of the porting instructions,
So, we are in the same boat then!
my only hope is to install FreeBSD-amd64 on another partition and download the 6.6.1 ghc for that platform, use it to generate .hc files to build 6.6.1 on NetBSD, and then use 6.6.1 to build 6.8 or whatever the current version may be by the time I get there?
But what I thought was rather to go with OpenBSD, since I figured that it would be closer to NetBSD (You can e.g. build ghc on OpenBSD using NetBSD-generated .hc files on i386), and generate the .hc files on OpenBSD. I have unfortunately not got any further than getting an openbsd partition though, have not had the time to get into the actual porting. Emil
-- Donn Cave
-- Emil Sköldberg