GHC-6.4.1 on FreeBSD-amd64 port progress

[Simon Marlow]

On 19 October 2005 20:41, Wilhelm B. Kloke wrote:

> Simon Marlow <simonmar at microsoft.com> schrieb:
>> 
>> Are you building GHC in a fresh tree now?  I'd recommend doing that.
> 
> Now I am using a *really* fresh tree. Formerly the compilation of
> Apply.cmm did not render an instructive error message, just
> failed for some sort of memory access exception. Now I have:
> 
> ../../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 parallel/RBH.c -o
> parallel/RBH.o ../../ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace -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 Apply.cmm -o Apply.o     
> ghc-asm: don't know how to mangle assembly language for:
> x86_64-unknown-freebsd 

Uhuh.  This means that GHC is attempting to build a registerised version
(which is what happens by default).  If you don't plan to work on
registerised support right now, you could set 'GhcUnregisterised=YES' in
mk/build.mk.

Cheers,
	Simon