Building GHC 6.6.1 on Leopard/PPC

[Thorkil Naur]

Hello,

On Thursday 20 December 2007 20:15, Jerry Charumilind wrote:
> ...
> Besides getting a working compiler, my other goal is to get contribute  
> a working build process on Leopard back to MacPorts, since they  
> continue to have no solution right now 
(http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/13039 
> ).

You may wish to consult http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1540 and, 
more generally, the GHC trac tickets with Operating System = Mac OS X.

> The bootstrap compiler that they used in Tiger 
(http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.4/MacOSX/ghc-6.4-darwin-bootstrap-tiger.tar.bz2  
> ) does not seem to work in Leopard.  I have been unable to find the  
> origin of this bootstrap build.  However, it has no dependencies on  
> GMP.framework or GNUreadline.framework, which are nice properties.

I tend to agree with this.

> ...

Best regards
Thorkil