
12 Aug
2008
12 Aug
'08
6:19 a.m.
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. Jules