powerpc-linux port

[Sven Moritz Hallberg]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 05:26:45PM +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> Sven Moritz Hallberg <pesco@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > > if there has ever been a working LinuxPPC port (I don't know about any)
> > 
> > No, there has not been a working port to LinuxPPC, as far as I can see.
> > But the mailing list archives showed some mails from 2000 or 2001 from
> > someone who was thinking of doing it.
> 
> If all you want is a working Haskell compiler on LinuxPPC, then you
> could try nhc98 instead of ghc.  It has been about a year since I last
> tried it but, all being well, it should build straight out of the box.

No, actually I'd like to have GHC, because many libraries I want to
use depend on it. But good that you point this out, maybe it would be
possible to have NHC compile GHC... Although the FAQ says it would most
probably not work.


Sven Moritz

-- 
"Would the All-Seeing Eye please look in my direction?"
 [ PGP KeyID: 0xC297FEAB ]