Re: GHC-6.12.1: broken configure

2009-12-30 Thread Simon Marlow
On 24/12/09 14:01, Ian Lynagh wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:49:40PM +, Simon Marlow wrote: On 22/12/09 12:59, Jens Petersen wrote: 2009/12/19 Kirill A. Shutemov: I want to build ghc for i586-alt-linux-gnu. Why? :) Why do not use config.guess to guess correct host/target/build inste

Re: GHC-6.12.1: broken configure

2009-12-24 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:49:40PM +, Simon Marlow wrote: > On 22/12/09 12:59, Jens Petersen wrote: >> 2009/12/19 Kirill A. Shutemov: >>> I want to build ghc for i586-alt-linux-gnu. >> >> Why? :) >> >>> Why do not use config.guess to guess correct host/target/build >>> instead of reinvent wheel

Re: GHC-6.12.1: broken configure

2009-12-23 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 21:49 +, Simon Marlow wrote: > I personally think we should revert to using the standard config.guess > and normalising the result as we used to. Aye. > It was changed due to this: > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1717 > > so we should find another way

Re: GHC-6.12.1: broken configure

2009-12-23 Thread Simon Marlow
On 22/12/09 12:59, Jens Petersen wrote: 2009/12/19 Kirill A. Shutemov: I want to build ghc for i586-alt-linux-gnu. Why? :) Why do not use config.guess to guess correct host/target/build instead of reinvent wheel? While I sympathize (I gave up long ago trying to use host/target/build with

Re: GHC-6.12.1: broken configure

2009-12-22 Thread Jens Petersen
2009/12/19 Kirill A. Shutemov : > I want to build ghc for i586-alt-linux-gnu. Why? :) > Why do not use config.guess to guess correct host/target/build > instead of reinvent wheel? While I sympathize (I gave up long ago trying to use host/target/build with ghc - we use them by default in Fedora)

GHC-6.12.1: broken configure

2009-12-18 Thread Kirill A. Shutemov
I want to build ghc for i586-alt-linux-gnu. > ./configure --host=i586-alt-linux-gnu --build=i586-alt-linux-gnu checking for gfind... no checking for find... /bin/find checking for sort... /bin/sort checking for ghc... /usr/bin/ghc checking version of ghc... 6.10.1 Target platform inferred as: i386