GHC porting to FreeBSD-amd64 progress report

[Simon Marlow]

W.B. Kloke wrote:
> In my effort to produce a working FreeBSD-amd64 compiler I made some
> progress. Now I have a working stage1/ghc-inplace (which is a 32bit
> executable producing 64bit code). But the compilation of rts fails in
> file Apply.cmm with the following message:
> 
> == gmake all -r;
>  in /.amd_mnt/vestein/host/usr/home/wb/ghc-6.8.1/rts
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ../compiler/ghc-inplace -H16m -O -optc-O2 -package-name rts -static -I../gmp/gmpbuild -I. -#include HCIncludes.h -dcmm-lint     -c Apply.cmm -o Apply.o
> 
> In file included from Apply.cmm:13:0: 
> 
> /.amd_mnt/vestein/host/usr/home/wb/ghc-6.8.1/includes/Cmm.h:333:2:
>      error: #error mp_limb_t != StgWord: assumptions in PrimOps.cmm are now false
> gmake[1]: *** [Apply.o] Error 1
> gmake: *** [stage1] Error 1
> 
> 
> This is, of course, because the derived constants SIZEOF_mp_limb_t is wrong.
> Is there a way to get to a working system from this intermediate stage?

Are you following the porting instructions in 
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting?  I would expect 
SIZEOF_mp_limb_t to be correct, as it is generated by mkDerivedConstants. 
Perhaps you compiled mkDerivedConstants as a 32-bit executable?

Cheers,
	Simon