x86_64 port

[Simon Marlow]

On 02 March 2005 14:15, John Goerzen wrote:

> Kip Macy <kip.macy <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I've followed the instructions to the letter.
> 
> Debian has had a working amd64 package of ghc for some time now.  It
> is built out of the standard source base for it.  You can find that
> at: 
> 
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/ghc6
> 
> You'll want to grab the orig.tar.gz and the diff.gz files.
> 
> If you want to grab an amd64 .deb to try, go to:
> 
>
http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64/pool/unstable/main/amd64/g/
ghc6/
> 
> Even if you're not running Debian, there are tools available to
> convert a .deb to a RPM or tgz package.  Or, you can easily unpack a
> deb using only ar(1) and tar(1).

My amd64 hardware arrived yesterday, shouldn't be too long before we
have a registerised port of GHC, and possibly a native code generator...

Cheers,
	Simon