debian ghci on sparc64

William Lee Irwin III wli at holomorphy.com
Tue Jan 18 16:00:57 EST 2005


On 15 December 2004 14:46, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> There seems to be some trouble with the debian ghci on sparc64. I can
>> dredge up more information if given an idea of what to look for.

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 04:41:02PM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> This turned out to be relatively straightforward.  Two fixes:
> ghc-asm.lprl needs slight modifications for new versions of gcc on
> sparc-*-linux, and the dynamic linker also needs to have USE_MMAP
> enabled due to needing to execute dynamically allocated memory.
> I've made these fixes in the HEAD, and also merged them into the 6.2
> branch.  William: there's a fixed tree in /mnt/dm0/simonmar/ghc-6.2.2 on
> your sparc64 box.

Great, thanks for fixing it up! I can make similar arrangements for the
alpha issue, if desired.


-- wli


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