[Fedora-haskell] Problems compiling Pugs on Athlon 64 with ghc64

[Simon Marlow]

On 22 March 2005 21:10, John van Krieken wrote:

> Hallo,
> when trying to compile Pugs with ghc64 (ghc64-6.4-4 rpm, athlon 64)
> I get message like the following:
> 
> src/Compile/Haskell.hs:28:25:
>     Template Haskell bracket illegal in a stage-1 compiler
> 	  [| return (VStr s) |]
> 
> It seems that I got a stage 1 compiler...anybody?

I think the message is a bit misleading: the compiler needs GHCi support
in order to run TH code, and x86_64 doesn't have GHCi yet, even in a
stage2 compiler (the RTS linker needs work).

Cheers,
	Simon