On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Francesco Mazzoli <f...@mazzo.li> wrote: > No, it is not possible to build GHC without GHC. Building GHC on ARM is > going to be extremely tricky (I'm not sure anyone has ever done it).
I used to use an unregistered build of GHC built by someone in the Debian community - it worked well enough. Cheers, Thomas > > What you should be able to do easily with the next release is cross-compile > to ARM through the LLVM backend. > > Francesco. > > > On 08/04/12 23:28, . wrote: >> >> Hi Cafe, >> I hope this is the right place to ask this kind of stuff. >> I would like to try ghc on a panda board (armv7l) with arch linux. >> There is apparently no pre-built package, so I was trying the >> instructions to build, from here: >> <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting>. >> >> However, I still seem to need a ghc and ghc-pkg installed: I am getting >> this error message: >> .... >> checking for tar... /bin/tar >> checking for gpatch... no >> checking for patch... /usr/bin/patch >> checking for dtrace... no >> checking for HsColour... no >> checking for xmllint... no >> configure: WARNING: cannot find xmllint in your PATH, you will not be >> able to validate your documentation >> checking for xsltproc... no >> configure: WARNING: cannot find xsltproc in your PATH, you will not be >> able to build the HTML documentation >> checking for dblatex... no >> configure: WARNING: cannot find dblatex in your PATH, you will not be >> able to build the PDF and PS documentation >> checking for ghc-pkg matching ... configure: error: Cannot find matching >> ghc-pkg >> >> --------- >> >> Does anyone know if it is possible to build ghc without ghc on this >> platform? >> I was using the tarball sources for ghc 7.4.1. >> >> >> Thanks, >> Christian >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
