debian ghci on sparc64

[Simon Marlow]

On 18 January 2005 21:01, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> 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.

Are you referring to this bug?

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=232727

If so, that's quite a bit of work - not 6.4 material I'm afraid.

Cheers,
	Simon