64bit Solaris was: Re: 7.8.1 plan

[Alain O'Dea]

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On 07/14/2014 01:16 PM, Karel Gardas wrote:
> On 07/14/14 02:53 PM, Christian Maeder wrote:
>> Hi Karel,
>> 
>> usually I do not build HEAD. My attempt starting to do so failed
>> as follows:
>> 
>> git clone git://git.haskell.org/ghc.git cd ghc ./sync-all get 
>> autoreconf
> 
> ^ I'm not sure, but shouldn't that be `perl boot' ?
> 
>> ./configure
> 
> ^ if you don't have x86_64-solaris ghc yet on your system, you
> will probably need to cross-compile with --target= param.
> 
>> Is there somewhere a x86_64-solaris2 binary-dist (for Solaris 10)
>> to try out first?
> 
> I haven't tried that yet as my primary target is Solaris 11.

If you target Solaris 10 it should work on Solaris 11 as well.  That's
what the JRE and JDK do.  That's only workable if there isn't some
specific significant advantage in APIs/libraries unique to Solaris 11.

> 
> Karel
> 
> 
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