GHC on Solaris Nevada

[Christian Maeder]

Felix Martini wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to get a working GHC on Solaris Nevada (Solaris 11). I've
> tried the binary versions for Solaris 10 made by Christian Maeder. I
> couldn't get GHC 6.8.2 to install properly and GHC 6.6 does not work
> (it crashes the moment it needs to link to a library). After that i

What are the exact error messages? Do you have all required libraries
(see below)?

> tried to make an unregistered bootstrap of GHC 6.6 using Linux as the
> host OS. The bootstrapping failed on Solaris when making genapply or
> cabal-setup. The linker reports symbol referencing errors. Has someone
> already successfully build GHC on Solaris 11?

bootstrapping from C seems to be pretty hopeless.

Maybe my new binary release is easier to install:

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.8.2/maeder/ghc-6.8.2-i386-unknown-solaris2.tar.bz2

see also
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.glasgow.user/13868

Christian

-bash-3.1$ ldd lib/ghc-6.8.2/ghc-6.8.2
        librt.so.1 =>    /lib/librt.so.1
        libreadline.so.5 =>      /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so.5
        libncurses.so.5 =>       /usr/local/lib/libncurses.so.5
        libdl.so.1 =>    /lib/libdl.so.1
        libm.so.2 =>     /lib/libm.so.2
        libgmp.so.3 =>   /usr/local/lib/libgmp.so.3
        libpthread.so.1 =>       /lib/libpthread.so.1
        libc.so.1 =>     /lib/libc.so.1
        libaio.so.1 =>   /lib/libaio.so.1
        libmd5.so.1 =>   /lib/libmd5.so.1
        libiconv.so.2 =>         /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.2
        libsocket.so.1 =>        /lib/libsocket.so.1
        libnsl.so.1 =>   /lib/libnsl.so.1
        libgcc_s.so.1 =>         /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
        libmp.so.2 =>    /lib/libmp.so.2
        libscf.so.1 =>   /lib/libscf.so.1
        libdoor.so.1 =>  /lib/libdoor.so.1
        libuutil.so.1 =>         /lib/libuutil.so.1
        libgen.so.1 =>   /lib/libgen.so.1