Well, it did get fixed at some point. I remember using it and there is a comment in the port history:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/lang/ghc/Makefile Fix GHCi for amd64 (s/EM_X86_64/EM_AMD64/ noticed by Don Steward)... Thanks Greg On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Timo Myyrä <timo.my...@gmail.com> wrote: > IIRC it has been like that for a while. GHCi won't work on amd64 for > some reason. > The plain GHC should work though. > > I found following with Google: > http://www.nabble.com/Making-GHC-work-on-BSD-td19370901.html > > It apppears the problem is not limited to OpenBSD. > > Timo > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Greg Steuck <g...@nest.cx> wrote: >> It seems like we lost ghci somewhere on the way from 4.4 to 4.5. >> >> % ghci >> ___ ___ _ >> / _ \ /\ /\/ __(_) >> / /_\// /_/ / / | | GHC Interactive, version 6.6.1, for Haskell 98. >> / /_\\/ __ / /___| | http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ >> \____/\/ /_/\____/|_| Type :? for help. >> >> ghc-6.6.1: internal error: R_X86_64_PC32 relocation out of range: >> environ = 0xfffffffdf5f6d40e >> (GHC version 6.6.1 for x86_64_unknown_openbsd) >> Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug >> [1] 3789 abort (core dumped) ghci >> % pkg_info ghc >> Information for inst:ghc-6.6.1p2 >> ... >> % uname -mrspv >> OpenBSD 4.5 GENERIC#2052 amd64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800+ >> >> -- >> nest.cx is Gmail hosted, use PGP for anything private. Key: >> http://tinyurl.com/ho8qg >> Fingerprint: 5E2B 2D0E 1E03 2046 BEC3 4D50 0B15 42BD 8DF5 A1B0 >> >> > -- nest.cx is Gmail hosted, use PGP for anything private. Key: http://tinyurl.com/ho8qg Fingerprint: 5E2B 2D0E 1E03 2046 BEC3 4D50 0B15 42BD 8DF5 A1B0
