Building GHC 5.02 on Solaris x86

[Sigbjorn Finne]

"Alastair David Reid" <reid at cs.utah.edu> writes:
> 
> > So, bringing back the solution of having manually written C wrapper
> > functions which platform-independent Haskell source files will call
> > out to, would be preferable (in short, avoid the use of hsc2hs *or
> > any other extra tool* alltogether). I'm willing to make the
> > necessary changes.
> 
> You started by objecting to using a tool that commits your code to a
> platform too early.  I'm in complete agreement.
> 
> But now you seem to be objecting to using any tools at all.  This seems
> excessive.  Why not do one of:
> 

[..suggestions on what kind of tool to provide..]

> 
> (This is all on the assumption that the amount of code we're talking
> about is significant enough to care.  I have the impression that it is
> but could be wrong.)
> 

Yep, I'm of the humble(?) opinion that it is not. Minimising your tool
dependencies is always something to keep in mind too.

But let not that be the main point - the main point was that this problem
needs to be addressed, tool or no tool. I offered a no-tool solution which
has worked well in the past.

--sigbjorn