On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Uwe Hollerbach
Hi, all, I have an old iMac G3, running OSX 10.3.9, to which I have a sentimental attachment. I'd like to get ghc running on it, but the pre-built binaries I can find are all for more-recent iMacs, so I thought I would try to build it myself. I believe I read somewhere that gcc 3.3.X didn't work quite right for recent ghc -- I'm trying for now to build ghc 6.6.1 -- so I started by upgrading gcc to 3.4.6. That's working. So, with that in place, I went to the "porting ghc to a new arch" page and started going through the steps. I'm using a laptop running linux as the "host" computer, so that's i386-unknown-linux, some Fedora core derivative. It's using gcc 3.4.4.
It looks like ghc 6.4.1 had an installer package for 10.3.9; does that work for you? http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_641.html I think that the current version of ghc is supposed to be buildable with 6.4, so you might be able to bootstrap 6.6 or 6.8 that way, without going through the whole porting process. Let us know if you run into problems with it. Hope that helps, -Judah