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lhagan

15 Oct 2012 15 Oct '12

3:49 p.m.

I'm attempting to build ghc on NetBSD/amd64 by following the instructions at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting, but I haven't been able to get past the configure step on the target (see errors below). Where am I going wrong here? Alternatively, any ideas on where I can find pre-built binaries for this system? NetBSD/i386 would be easy, but I've had no luck finding a 64-bit version. Here's the configure error: ./configure --enable-hc-boot --build=x86_64-unknown-netbsd --host=x86_64-unknown-netbsd --target=x86_64-unknown-netbsd checking for gfind... no checking for find... /usr/bin/find checking for sort... /usr/bin/sort checking for ghc... no checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-netbsd checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-netbsd checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-netbsd HOST: x86_64-unknown-netbsd GHC build : x86_64-unknown-netbsd GHC host : x86_64-unknown-netbsd GHC target : x86_64-unknown-netbsd configure: Building in-tree ghc-pwd ./configure[3900]: : cannot execute - Is a directory configure: error: Building ghc-pwd failed

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Chatsiri Ratana

15 Oct 15 Oct

5:44 p.m.

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:49 AM, lhagan wrote:

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I'm attempting to build ghc on NetBSD/amd64 by following the instructions at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting, but I haven't been able to get past the configure step on the target (see errors below). Where am I going wrong here? Alternatively, any ideas on where I can find pre-built binaries for this system? NetBSD/i386 would be easy, but I've had no luck finding a 64-bit version.

Here's the configure error:

./configure --enable-hc-boot --build=x86_64-unknown-netbsd --host=x86_64-unknown-netbsd --target=x86_64-unknown-netbsd checking for gfind... no checking for find... /usr/bin/find checking for sort... /usr/bin/sort checking for ghc... no checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-netbsd checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-netbsd checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-netbsd HOST: x86_64-unknown-netbsd GHC build : x86_64-unknown-netbsd GHC host : x86_64-unknown-netbsd GHC target : x86_64-unknown-netbsd configure: Building in-tree ghc-pwd ./configure[3900]: : cannot execute - Is a directory configure: error: Building ghc-pwd failed

Can you post an error in config.log? Something wrong find on its.

Chatsiri Rattana.

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lhagan

9:46 p.m.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Chatsiri Ratana wrote:

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Can you post an error in config.log?

Sure, log attached.

Chatsiri Ratana

11:51 p.m.

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:46 AM, lhagan wrote:

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On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Chatsiri Ratana wrote:

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Can you post an error in config.log?

Sure, log attached.

Should be not include intermediate C by call ".hc" file? It should be using flags as below. ./configure --build=x86_64-unknown-netbsd --host=x86_64-unknown-netbsd --target=x86_64-unknown-netbsd Change flag in mk/build.mk for porting code before running command. Chatsiri Rattana

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lhagan

16 Oct 16 Oct

8:28 p.m.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Chatsiri Ratana wrote: Should be not include intermediate C by call ".hc" file? It should be using

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flags as below.

./configure --build=x86_64-unknown-netbsd --host=x86_64-unknown-netbsd --target=x86_64-unknown-netbsd

Change flag in mk/build.mk for porting code before running command.

Just tried changing the flag in build.mk, but I get the same error. Also, I'm pretty sure I need the --enable-hc-boot flag. Without it, I get: configure: error: GHC is required unless bootstrapping from .hc files.

Donn Cave

10:19 p.m.

Quoth lhagan ,

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Just tried changing the flag in build.mk, but I get the same error. Also, I'm pretty sure I need the --enable-hc-boot flag. Without it, I get: configure: error: GHC is required unless bootstrapping from .hc files.

Unless I've missed a whole lot of progress on this matter, it's going to be much more work than just getting the flags right. Several years ago, I managed to build 6.8, by starting with an OpenBSD port of 6.6 as an hc donor, and of course building 6.6 on NetBSD, and then using 6.6 to build 6.8. There's a great deal of debugging and patching that needs to be done in the process, some of it already done for i386 and some novel to amd64. I presented it to the NetBSD Haskell maintainer, but obviously it's a low priority - I think in the intervening years, you're the second person to mention it. If that individual (whose identity I can't recall at the moment) has a working NetBSD/amd64 port at this time, of any version, that would be extremely helpful; unfortunately I don't, I think my amd64 hardware is defunct. (I don't think I got the interpreter working, by the way, and that also usually means no haddock, etc.) Today, you'd be obliged to follow the same course, but probably would have to build one or two intermediate GHC versions as I doubt that 6.6 could build the current version. I understand the current version is not able to be bootstrapped from hc files at all. Donn

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