ghc-6.6 under sparc-sun-solaris

[Christian Maeder]

Winfried, could you also try my binary distribution?

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_66.html#sparcsolaris

Ian, could you remove the out-dated first line from this page?

<cite>
NOTE: you must use GCC 2.95 or 3.4+ on Sparc. There is a known bug with
GCC versions between 3.0-3.3 which causes incorrect code to be generated.
</cite>

Winfried Kung schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> when trying to build ghc-6.6 under Sparc Solaris (SunOS 5.9), the build fails with "/usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- x"
> I use gcc version 3.4.4 and GNU ld version 2.11.2 (with BFD 2.11.2). My configure recognizes them and sets an ld option "-x" as expected. But when it comes to make, I get the message:

ghc-6.6 can cope with the solaris linker. So if you call ./configure
when "/usr/ccs/bin" is first in your path, this should avoid using the
-x option.

> 
> == make all -wr -f Makefile;
>  in /global/HOME/kung/install/ghc-6.6/libraries/base
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ../../compiler/ghc-inplace -optc-mcpu=ultrasparc -opta-mcpu=ultrasparc -H16m -O -H16m -O -H16m -O -fglasgow-exts -cpp -Iinclude -"#include" HsBase.h -funbox-strict-fields -package-name  base-2.0 -O -Rghc-timing -fgenerics  -fgenerics -split-objs    -c GHC/Base.lhs -o GHC/Base.o  -ohi GHC/Base.hi
> /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- x
> usage: ld [-6:abc:d:e:f:h:il:mo:p:rstu:z:B:CD:F:GI:L:M:N:P:Q:R:S:VY:?] file(s)
>     [-64]           enforce a 64-bit link-edit
> ...
> ...
>       [-z verbose]    generate warnings for suspicious processings
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> It seems strange to me that /usr/ccs/bin/ld is called here, instead of /usr/local/bin/ld which I have in my path, but calling ghc-inplace with option "-pgml /usr/local/bin/ld" did not help either.

This seems strange to me, too, sorry.

Christian