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