AMD64

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

swest3:
> 
> >The amd64 port isn't really there yet.  It works unregisterised, but the
> >registerised support need some more work (as you discovered).  You also
> >need a non-broken version of gcc (3.3.3 or 3.4.0).
> > 
> >
> I'd settle for unregisterised... it seems every time I run through the 
> whole port process I see to do some new wrong thing each time, hehe. I'm 
> really just in search of a working ghc implementation for my amd64, 
> registered or not (the main difference is the use of architecture 
> specific registers and thus performance right?). Does anyone have any 
> unregistered amd64 builds that they've cooked up?

If you are running OpenBSD on your amd64, regular builds of 6.2.1 for
amd64 are happening in the -current branch. You can download them from

ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/amd64/ghc-6.2.1.tgz

You can also get a lot of the other common Haskell tools there too.

-- Don