GHC-6.4.1 on FreeBSD-amd64 port progress

[Simon Marlow]

On 20 October 2005 10:35, Simon Marlow wrote:

> 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.

Incedentally, registerised support should be quite easy, since I've
already done it for x86_64-unknown-linux, where the ABI and toolchain
are the same AFAIK, so it might just be a case of enabling
x86_64-unknown-freebsd in the right places (ghc-asm.lprl for one, I
can't remember if there's anywhere else off hand).

Cheers,
	Simon