GHCI on ARM (Nvidia Jetson TK1)

Hi There, I would like to ask you what is the situation with ghci on arm. I bought Jetson TK1 and I am really sad that ghci does not works there. I have found mentioned somewhere that this should be fixed in 7.4.2 but still it is not. Can somebody clarify what is the situation at the moment and what are further plans? Best regards, T. -- <warning> This e-mail is intended for the named recipient(s). It may contain privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not one of the intended recipients, please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail and attachment(s): you must not copy, distribute, retain or take any action in reliance upon the email or attachment(s). While all reasonable efforts are made to safeguard inbound and outbound e-mails, Tomas Korcak cannot guarantee that attachments are virus-free or are compatible with your systems, and does not accept liability in respect of viruses or computer problems experienced. Thank you. </warning> <notice> Your Skills In Reading Have Improved +1 </notice> <idea> Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant. </idea>

I've had good success with Fedora 19 and GHC 7.6 on the ODROID. I don't recall any problems with GHCI. 7.4.2 is over 2 years old now. I recommend checking out something newer (7.8.3 being the most recent release). --- Elliot Robinson Phone: (321) 252-9660 Site: www.argiopetech.com Email: elliot.robinson@argiopetech.com PGP Fingerprint: 0xD1E72E6A9D0610FFBBF838A6FFB5205A9FEDE59A

Tomas Korcak
Hi There, I would like to ask you what is the situation with ghci on arm.
GHCi should be functional. As of 7.6.3 (IIRC) the GHC runtime linker has had support for ARM, although it is known to be buggy in some cases. More recently there has been a push to move towards dynamic linking by default. This removes GHC's runtime linker from the equation although introduces some difficulties of its own (mostly due to bugs in binutil's linker [1). A few months back I wrote down some notes on the current state of GHC on ARM [2]. This might answer some of your questions. Cheers, - Ben [1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16177 [2] http://bgamari.github.io/posts/2014-03-06-compiling-ghc-7.8-on-arm.html
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Ben Gamari
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Elliot Robinson
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Tomas Korcak