Excerpts from Simon Peyton-Jones's message of Mon Sep 08 07:22:15 -0500 2008: > Dear BDS hackers > > We'd like GHC to be buildable on BSD, but at the moment it isn't. We support > GHC on Linux, Windows, Mac, but we really need help with BSD. > > Alas, we didn't get much response to Simon's message below. (One, I think -- > thank you to that person! I think it was Kili, but I'm not sure.) > > So this message is to say: if you'd like GHC on BSD, please help! No help > probably means no GHC. Time is short before GHC 6.10. > > "Help" means more than "can offer a remote login", but less than "solve it by > yourself". We'll try hard to support you if you can invest a bit of time at > your end. > > Many thanks > > Simon
I would be interested and willing to get GHC onto DragonflyBSD (a platform which is currently totally unsupported,) and maintain it when time permits but due to no HC bootstrapping I believe I would have to target e.g. 6.4.2 or so first and then move up to HEAD if possible. Before libffi didn't work on Dragonfly which meant to even get HEAD to build I'd need to port it too, although that seems to have been rectified as of current (Dragonfly 2.0.) However - I am using OS X Leopard on an Intel box for my main machine and therefore I am not sure how well HC bootstrapping would work in combination with an older GHC that was released when my system didn't even *exist*. Would this assumption be accurate? I just bought myself a copy of VMWare Fusion which is where Dragonfly resides, and I would be perfectly willing to e.g. install Linux as well so the bootstrapping process could go smoother since I think I would have way more luck between Linux and Dragonfly. I've got class today and I need to study as well as homework, but I'll install a copy of ArchLinux and hopefully get back to you later today on that front. Austin _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
