progress on Freebsd-amd64 (Was: .hc files for buildingghc-6.4.1 onamd64 ?)

[Simon Marlow]

On 22 September 2005 09:49, Simon Marlow wrote:

> On 21 September 2005 21:14, Wilhelm B. Kloke wrote:
> 
>> Simon Marlow <simonmar at microsoft.com> schrieb:
>>> 
>>> Int64# primitive type (it's the same as Int#).  You might want to
>>> make sure that ghc/includes/ghcautoconf.h on the host machine is the
>>> right one - it should have been copied from the target machine.
>>> 
>> Yes. ghcautoconf.h had been rebuilt accidentally.
>> 
>> Now I have an unregisterised ghc-inplace. What is the fastest way to
>> test its usability?
> 
> congratulations!
> 
> You should be able to build a simple Haskell program and run it, like
> so:
> 
>   $ cat >hello.hs
>   main = putStrLn "hello world!"
>   ^D
>   $ $target/ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace hello.hs
>   $ ./a.out
>   hello world!

oops, I lied.  You need to build the libraries before you can use this
GHC to build a program.

Cheers,
	Simon