Compiling natively GHC for ARMv7l softabi

[shiftag at nanotek.info]

> shiftag at nanotek.info writes:
> 
>> Hi List,
>> 
>> I would like to install GHC for my CPU which is an ARMv7L Soft-ABI
>> NEON FPU. I read some stuff on ARM and GHC related. So it appears that
>> an installation is possible but with a RPi. The problem is the stack
>> binary which has been compiled for Hard-Float target. So it should not
>> be difficult to make it work for my architecture.
> 
> Indeed I suspect you are right; it should be fairly straightforward to
> build GHC for your platform.
> 
>> I checked for stack sources (stack-1.5.1.tar.gz) but I have any clue
>> about how to compile it. Can you give me an hand ?
> 
> First you will need to build GHC itself. This will be a two-step
> process:
> 
> 1. First build a cross-compiler [1] for your ARMv7L target on a machine
> with a working GHC (e.g. an amd64 machine).
> 
> 2. Transfer this compiler to your target and use it to build a native
> GHC
> 
> Let us know if you have any trouble.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Ben
> 
> [1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/CrossCompiling


Thank you.

So, I succeed to install GHC on x64 GNU/Linux machine. However, I have an issue at Stage1 while
cross-compiling. I have the following error :

# make
===--- building phase 0
make --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=0 phase_0_builds
utils/genprimopcode/ghc.mk:19: utils/genprimopcode/dist/package-data.mk: No such file or directory
utils/deriveConstants/ghc.mk:19: utils/deriveConstants/dist/package-data.mk: No such file or
directory
utils/genapply/ghc.mk:23: utils/genapply/dist/package-data.mk: No such file or directory
libraries/hpc/ghc.mk:3: libraries/hpc/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such file or directory
libraries/binary/ghc.mk:3: libraries/binary/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such file or directory
libraries/Cabal/Cabal/ghc.mk:3: libraries/Cabal/Cabal/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such file or
directory
libraries/ghc-boot-th/ghc.mk:3: libraries/ghc-boot-th/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such file or
directory
libraries/ghc-boot/ghc.mk:3: libraries/ghc-boot/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such file or
directory
libraries/template-haskell/ghc.mk:3: libraries/template-haskell/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such
file or directory
libraries/hoopl/ghc.mk:3: libraries/hoopl/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such file or directory
libraries/transformers/ghc.mk:3: libraries/transformers/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such file or
directory
libraries/terminfo/ghc.mk:3: libraries/terminfo/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such file or
directory
compiler/ghc.mk:584: compiler/stage1/package-data.mk: No such file or directory
utils/hsc2hs/ghc.mk:15: utils/hsc2hs/dist/package-data.mk: No such file or directory
utils/ghc-pkg/ghc.mk:60: utils/ghc-pkg/dist/package-data.mk: No such file or directory
utils/dll-split/ghc.mk:23: utils/dll-split/dist-install/package-data.mk: No such file or directory
ghc/ghc.mk:111: ghc/stage1/package-data.mk: No such file or directory
"/usr/bin/ghc" -H32m -O -Wall \
-optc-Wall -optc-fno-stack-protector \
\
-hide-all-packages \
-package base -package array -package time -package containers -package bytestring -package deepseq
-package process -package pretty -package directory -package unix \
--make utils/ghc-cabal/Main.hs -o utils/ghc-cabal/dist/build/tmp/ghc-cabal \
-no-user-package-db \
-Wall -fno-warn-unused-imports -fno-warn-warnings-deprecations \
-DCABAL_VERSION=1,24,2,0 \
-DMIN_VERSION_binary_0_8_0 \
-DBOOTSTRAPPING \
-optP-include -optPutils/ghc-cabal/cabal_macros_boot.h \
-odir bootstrapping \
-hidir bootstrapping \
-ilibraries/Cabal/Cabal \
-ilibraries/binary/src -DGENERICS \
-ilibraries/filepath \
-ilibraries/hpc \

[53 of 95] Compiling Distribution.PackageDescription (
libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/PackageDescription.hs,
bootstrapping/Distribution/PackageDescription.o )
utils/ghc-cabal/ghc.mk:48: recipe for target 'utils/ghc-cabal/dist/build/tmp/ghc-cabal' failed
make[1]: *** [utils/ghc-cabal/dist/build/tmp/ghc-cabal] Killed
Makefile:129: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

I checked Google and I found the following patch :
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8709

But it didn't work. Do you have an idea to fix it ?

Cheers