[Q] Need help installing ghc on NetBSD

[Matthias Fischmann]

> > I reconfigured gmp so that it falls back to the pure C implementation,
> > and the problem disappeared.  Is the gmp stuff in ghc maintained at
> > Glasgow, or are you syncing your code with the official distribution?
> 
> It's an almost exact copy of the official distribution, with a few minor
> tweaks to the configuration stuff, as I recall.  Is the bug in the GMP
> configuration, or in our build system?

With NetBSD 1.3.2 and gmp-2.0.2, `./configure && gmake && gmake check'
works fine.  Since this is not the case in the ghc-4.08.2 source dist,
I assume that it must be a ghc problem.  Note that the targets differ
slightly: it's `i386-unknown-netbsd1.3.2' in the originial and
`i386-unknown-netbsd' in the rts.  As I mentioned earlier going to
ghc/rts/gmp and reconfiguring with `--target=unknown' does the trick.

Coming to NetBSD 1.5 again (my next target platform), I did not manage
to compile gmp-2.0.2 standalone but it works fine in the ghc distrib
if target is set to NONE.

Maybe gmp-2.0.2 is simply to old for NetBSD 1.5.  Should I try a copy
from anoncvs?  Whichever you tell me...


 -Matthias



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