Re: Making GHC work on BSD

2008-09-08 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Monday 08 September 2008 14:22, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > Dear BDS hackers > > We'd like GHC to be buildable on BSD, but at the moment it isn't. We support GHC on Linux, Windows, Mac, but we really need help with BSD. I would like to do something about this. I have (a number of) x8

Re: Making GHC work on BSD

2008-09-08 Thread Donn Cave
Quoth Simon Peyton-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | Dear BDS hackers ... | So this message is to say: if you'd like GHC on BSD, please help! No help | probably means no GHC. Time is short before GHC 6.10. ... | There's also one NetBSD-specific ticket: | | 2351NetBSD defines ELF_ST_TYPE In case

RE: Windows build

2008-09-08 Thread Mitchell, Neil
Hi Claus, > If I understand the implications correctly, one would need a three point change to adapt properly: > - sign the setup.ini file with a key, in place > - put up a public key to check against, somewhere else > - point setup.exe to the location of the public key > Given that all we want ar