I was trying to get a ghc going in my shell account the other day and found that the data at http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.6/html/building/sec-porting-ghc.html didn't apply at all. The system is a netbsd alpha which turns up as alpha-unknown-netbsd through configure. I didn't find any configure.in to modify, but there is a config.guess. Is that what I'm supposed to modify? I was using the source distribution of ghc 6.6. So how do I get off to s start on the netbsd system at my ISP? Here is the uname data for my system with the hostname x'd out: NetBSD xxx 2.1.0_STABLE NetBSD 2.1.0_STABLE (sdf) #0: Mon Nov 13 08:11:09 UTC 2006 root@ol:/var/src/netbsd/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/sdf alpha Brian McQueen
Hi Brian, On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:07:19PM -0800, Brian McQueen wrote:
I was trying to get a ghc going in my shell account the other day and found that the data at http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.6/html/building/sec-porting-ghc.html didn't apply at all.
The system is a netbsd alpha which turns up as alpha-unknown-netbsd through configure.
I didn't find any configure.in to modify, but there is a config.guess. Is that what I'm supposed to modify?
It should say configure.ac; I've just updated the doc sources accordingly. If you search for "alpha" in that file then you should find the stanzas. Just copy/paste a similar one and update it for Alpha NetBSD. Thanks Ian
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 02:39:33PM +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote:
http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.6/html/building/sec-porting-ghc.html
I've been reminded that the building guide is being moved to the wiki, so http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building (in particular http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting) is probably the best to work from. Thanks Ian
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