Re: GHC on DragonFly?
2009/5/23 G.Isenmann i...@goetz-isenmann.de: There is at least one open problem with rts/Linker.c http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2009-04/msg00030.html This prevents the use of ghci and the build of e.g. yi. The constant 15 is defined in /usr/include/machine/elf.h as R_386_TLS_IE (Absolute address of GOT for -ve static TLS). This is meaningless to me at the moment. I shall have to dig into it, but if anyone can point me at any useful documentation, it will be appreciated. -- Colin Adams Preston, Lancashire, ENGLAND
Re: GHC on DragonFly?
I'm going to have a go at this when GHC 6.12.1 is released (32-bit DragonFly). It looks very intimidating, as I don't know x86 assembler, nor DragonFly internals, but I dare say I can shrug off 15 years of not doing anything so low-level, and get to grips with it. 2009/5/23 G.Isenmann i...@goetz-isenmann.de: On Sat, 16 May 2009 19:09:06 +0100 Colin Adams colinpaulad...@googlemail.com wrote: I think someone was making an attempt to port ghc (Glasgow Haskell Compiler) to DragonFly. Has this been succesfull? Neither lang/ghc (6.8.3) nor wip/ghc (6.10.1) build without changes. I started with wip/ghc and made the build process believe that the build was on and for freebsd4. That gave me something good enought as a bootstrap compiler. Wasn't able to build a ghc package, and while building some packages with cabal I got error messages like not possible with a stage 1 compiler. Next I used this compiler (without pkgsrc and netbsd bootstrap compiler) to build the next version. This time I checked the sources for anything freebsd specific and modified those places to do the same for dragonfly. There is at least one open problem with rts/Linker.c http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2009-04/msg00030.html This prevents the use of ghci and the build of e.g. yi. Not much done since. At the moment I am happy with a working darcs and xmonad. I have looked a few times into the binutils and ghc sources, but still do not understand much about this (tls) stuff. -- Goetz -- Colin Adams Preston, Lancashire, ENGLAND
Re: GHC on DragonFly?
On Sat, 16 May 2009 19:09:06 +0100 Colin Adams colinpaulad...@googlemail.com wrote: I think someone was making an attempt to port ghc (Glasgow Haskell Compiler) to DragonFly. Has this been succesfull? Neither lang/ghc (6.8.3) nor wip/ghc (6.10.1) build without changes. I started with wip/ghc and made the build process believe that the build was on and for freebsd4. That gave me something good enought as a bootstrap compiler. Wasn't able to build a ghc package, and while building some packages with cabal I got error messages like not possible with a stage 1 compiler. Next I used this compiler (without pkgsrc and netbsd bootstrap compiler) to build the next version. This time I checked the sources for anything freebsd specific and modified those places to do the same for dragonfly. There is at least one open problem with rts/Linker.c http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2009-04/msg00030.html This prevents the use of ghci and the build of e.g. yi. Not much done since. At the moment I am happy with a working darcs and xmonad. I have looked a few times into the binutils and ghc sources, but still do not understand much about this (tls) stuff. -- Goetz
