Brian McQueen wrote:
I've finally got a working ghc on Solaris. Its 6.4.1. I couldn't get the earlier, pre 6.4 versions going due to problems with my gcc. It
Indeed, I cannot reliable use our ghc-6.2.x solaris installation any more after gcc-2.95.3 has been uninstalled.
seemed to be expecting a gcc shared library that my system didn't have, nor did any other gcc that I was able to compile. After loading a few prerequisites, and then reloading them with --enable-shared, its now going.
Which gcc version are you using? I use gcc-3.4.4. Do you mean you had to install the dynamic libraries libreadline.so.5, libncurses.so.5, and libgmp.so.3 ? (That was clearly stated on the distribution page: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_641.html#sparcsolaris) If you had to install something else, please tell us what it was.
I found a problem with a header file in the solaris distribution too - it expects stdint.h, which doesn't seem to be a part of Solaris anymore. I undef'd the HAVE_STDINT_H lines, and its working well now.
/usr/include/stdint.h is part of our solaris (2.8 and 2.10) installations (and therefore HAVE_STDINT_H was defined). I don't know where HAVE_STDINT_H matters. Christian