GHC 6.4.1 on Solaris x86

[Duncan Coutts]

On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 12:59 +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 14 November 2005 04:17, Ben Horsfall wrote:
> 
> > Is there a binary package for GHC 6.4.1 on Solaris x86 (Sun OS 5.9)?
> > 
> > Building from source fails thus:
> > 
> > ../../ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace -optc-O -optc-Wall -optc-W
> > -optc-Wstrict-prototypes -optc-Wmissing-prototypes
> > -optc-Wmissing-declarations -optc-Winline -optc-Waggregate-return
> > -optc-Wbad-function-cast -optc-I../includes -optc-I. -optc-Iparallel
> > -optc-DCOMPILING_RTS -optc-fomit-frame-pointer -H16m -O -O2 -static
> > -I. -#include Prelude.h -#include Rts.h -#include RtsFlags.h -#include
> > RtsUtils.h -#include StgRun.h -#include Schedule.h -#include Printer.h
> > -#include Sanity.h -#include STM.h -#include Storage.h -#include
> > SchedAPI.h -#include Timer.h -#include Itimer.h -#include ProfHeap.h
> > -#include LdvProfile.h -#include Profiling.h -#include Apply.h -fvia-C
> > -dcmm-lint     -c StgCRun.c -o StgCRun.o
> > Assembler: StgCRun.c
> >         "/tmp/ghc14327.s", line 18 : Illegal mnemonic
> >         "/tmp/ghc14327.s", line 18 : Syntax error
> >         "/tmp/ghc14327.s", line 18 : Illegal mnemonic
> > make[2]: *** [StgCRun.o] Error 1
> 
> There isn't a binary for 6.4.1 that I know of.  You should be able to
> follow the porting instructions in the Building Guide to get an
> unregisterised version going (get the version from CVS, there were some
> recent modifications).

My department uses 6.4.1 on Solaris 9 and it works nicely. They built it
from source using version 6.2.2 (for which there are binaries I
believe). I don't think it's necessary to do a fresh port.

Duncan