GHC-6.4.1 on FreeBSD-amd64 port progress

[Simon Marlow]

On 24 October 2005 19:04, Wilhelm B. Kloke wrote:

> Wilhelm B. Kloke <wb at arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> schrieb:
>> 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:
>> 
> I have enabled freebsd in the mangler now. After installing with
> make install stage=1
> the compiler compiles an .o and .hi file, but it does not find the
> libraries to link with for test.hs.

Is it that it does not find the libraries, or does it find the libraries
but still gets a bunch of undefined references?  If the latter, then
there could be an issue with the mangler.  Try an 'nm' on libHSbase.a to
see if the missing symbols are actually defined.

Cheers,
	Simon