[GHC] #5347: Help Me Port Haskell to Haiku OS

[GHC]

#5347: Help Me Port Haskell to Haiku OS
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  Reporter:  mcandre              |          Owner:                  
      Type:  bug                  |         Status:  closed          
  Priority:  normal               |      Milestone:                  
 Component:  Compiler             |        Version:  7.0.3           
Resolution:  worksforme           |       Keywords:                  
  Testcase:                       |      Blockedby:                  
Difficulty:                       |             Os:  Unknown/Multiple
  Blocking:                       |   Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
   Failure:  Building GHC failed  |  
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Changes (by igloo):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => worksforme


Comment:

 You mean with the same source tarball the command works on OS X, but not
 Haiku?

 If so, I'd guess autoreconf or sh on Haiku isn't behaving as expected. I'd
 suggest tracing through the configure script and seeing what is going
 wrong (e.g. see whether `BootingFromHc` isn't getting set correctly, or if
 the test of its value is going wrong, or what).

 By the way, just a heads-up: the porting process tends to bitrot, so you
 are likely to run into a few more issues along the way. We're also slowly
 working towards a cross-compiling ghc as an alternative porting process.

 I'd recommend working with the HEAD from git, as that's where any fixes
 will go. Perhaps the easiest way for you to do so would be to check out a
 tree on OS X and then tar that up.

 I'm going to close this ticket; the glasgow-haskell-users list is probably
 a better place for help on porting.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5347#comment:1>
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