Conrad Meyer wrote:
On Tuesday 10 February 2009 06:41:54 am Simon Marlow wrote:
Just to close -- I will point out that ghci doesn't work on many platforms that Hugs does (though ghc does). Hugs is the only interpreter on some of these platforms. I didn't see anyone follow up to this so I'll just mention that nowadays GHCi works wherever GHC works, since 6.10.1. Actually I think most
John Goerzen wrote: platforms worked with 6.8.1, but 6.10.1 added libffi which meant that GHCi also gets working FFI support on any platform supported by libffi, which is most of them.
Cheers, Simon
Counterexample: GHC 6.10.1 works on linux/ppc, GHCi 6.10.1 does not. (6.8.3 worked, though.)
I presume you're referring to this bug: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2972 So I should really say that /in theory/ there's no reason why GHCi shouldn't work if GHC works, platform-specific bugs notwithstanding. As Ian said in a comment on that bug, I expect that an unregisterised build would work fine. We could do with a Linux/PPC expert to help improve GHC support on that platform. Cheers, Simon