64bit Solaris was: Re: 7.8.1 plan

[Karel Gardas]

Folks,

thanks to 64bit GHC binaries provided by Alain's SmartOS builder I've 
been able to hack GHC to compile well on/for x86_64-solaris platform. 
Austin already merged the support into GHC HEAD, see 
https://phabricator.haskell.org/rGHC6da603213b097a267418d8c14cbfaf0021ac2b2c

It would be great if you also give it a try and test on your systems or 
with cross-compiling without a need to install SmartOS libraries.

Thanks!
Karel

On 04/10/14 09:39 AM, Christian Maeder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've tried to cross-compile
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8910
> but did not succeed, yet.
>
> There seem to be problems with Int64 and/or Word data types.
> The proper start would be to make a careful comparison of the test-suite
> results, but there are already failures for the 32bit version (under
> Solaris 10). Unfortunately I don't have time to look into it further.
>
> Cheers Christian
>
> Am 09.04.2014 16:49, schrieb Pavel Ryzhov:
>> Hi Karel,
>>
>> That is great!
>>
>> Do you know if there any plans for 64-bit build of GHC for Solaris 11?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Pavel