#2965: GHC on OS X does not compile 64-bit
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Reporter: Axman6 | Owner: thoughtpolice
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.12 branch
Component: Compiler | Version:
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: 64bit | Difficulty: Unknown
Testcase: | Os: MacOS X
Architecture: x86_64 (amd64) |
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Comment (by axman6):
It's my ticket, so i guess i could take some responsibility. I'm not sure
how useful I could be, or how much time i could spend, at least not until
the summer holidays here (December to February). I've also never looked
into GHC's source, so I'd probably need help too. So anyway, sign me up as
co-maintainer, and i'll see how i can help when I have time.
I'd also like to say thanks to everyone for the recent activity regarding
this ticket. With Snow Leopard being the first Mac OS favouring 64-bit
over 32, I think it's important that GHC move that way, so it doesn't feel
left behind on the system.
Replying to [comment:26 pumpkin]:
> Replying to [comment:25 simonpj]:
> > Just to add: what we would really like is for someone to step forward
as the Maintainer of the X86_64 MacOS port of GHC. Then we really could
make it a Tier-1 platform (see
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms). In principle its not
hard:
> > * MacOS is already in one Tier-1 platform (32 bit)
> > * x86_64 is already in another Tier-1 platform (Linux)
> > All we need to do is to put the two together -- and some folk are
already working on that (#3472).
> >
> > But for us to sign up to Tier-1-ness, we need someone (or a small
group) to sign up to being the maintainers.
> >
> > (Ben recently volunteered to be the maintainer for Sparc; thanks Ben.)
> >
> > Simon
>
> I would definitely be willing to "co-maintain" this with someone else,
but as a relative newcomer to Haskell and GHC (who hasn't even succeeded
in making an unregistered build for this platform yet) I don't think I'd
be suitable as a sole maintainer. Any experts out there who'd be willing
to help?
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2965#comment:28>
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