Theoretically, ARM supports stage2 with the home-grown linker and a statically linked GHC, but last I understood, it can't build dynamically. That's because building the compiler with LLVM dynamically is unsupported, and ARM can only use the LLVM backend.
There may be hope though; in commit a4212524, Peter Wortmann hints that LLVM may be able to dynamically link correctly now. I haven't tested it since the LLVM backend rewrite was merged in (and I should really get around to this.) On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Nicolas Frisby <nicolas.fri...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Joachim Breitner <m...@joachim-breitner.de> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Am Mittwoch, den 10.07.2013, 14:42 -0500 schrieb Nicolas Frisby: >> > 2) Are the major GHC distributors planning on distributing >> > dynamically-linked ghc by default? GHC HQ, Haskell Platform, >> > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/distribution_packages? >> >> >> You are talking about the GHC binary itself, not about how GHC compiles >> the libraries and programs, right? For the latter case, answers for >> Debian (and Ubuntu) can be found in >> >> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2012-November/023093.html >> and I’m happy to elaborate. In the former case: *shrug* – should we? > > > Yes, I was talking about the GHC binary itself. Even so, that is a very rich > thread; thanks for the pointer. > > I was asking for various reasons. I'm not casting a vote either way. > > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > -- Regards, Austin - PGP: 4096R/0x91384671 _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs