Unregisterised GHC 6.4.2 on the ARM success -- now what?

[Simon Marlow]

Jeremy Shaw wrote:
> At Wed, 03 May 2006 22:06:05 -0700,
> Jeremy Shaw wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I believe I have successfully got an unregisterised version of ghc
>>6.4.2 compiled for arm/linux.
> 
> 
> Updates:
> -------
> 
> 1) I turns out I only had a in-place build of ghc, I have now got a
>    real build 'working'.
> 
> 2) I have started putting my notes in the Wiki
> 
> I added a section to the end of this page:
> 
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms
> 
> And started this page:
> 
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ArmLinuxGhc
> 
> I will add the information about getting from an inplace .hc build to
> a normal build tomorrow.
> 
> 3) It would appear that the floating point problem is still a
>    problem. It did not cause any compile time errors. But ghc
>    generates bogus answers, the one liner:
> 
>      main = print 1.0 
> 
>    prints: 5.299808824e-315

If you want to get a picture of how much of your GHC build is working, 
it's useful to run the test suite.  Check out the testsuite repository 
from darcs.haskell.org into your source tree, then

  $ cd testsuite
  $ make boot
  $ cd tests/ghc-regress

then, to do a quick test run (~5 minutes):

  $ make stage=2 fast

or a full test run (several hours, probably):

  $ make stage=2

Cheers,
	Simon