ANN: ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts

[Christian Maeder]

Gregory Wright wrote:
> Leopard/ppc are out of luck until for now, for reason discussed earlier
> on this list.

I was able to build ghc 6.8.2 on Leopard/ppc using the patch from

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1958
(also below)

Could you try if it works for you, too?

Cheers Christian

+++ ghc-6.8.2/compiler/nativeGen/PprMach.hs
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@
                                    SLIT(".section .data\n\t.align 4"))
        ,IF_ARCH_x86_64(IF_OS_darwin(SLIT(".const_data\n.align 3"),
                                      SLIT(".section .data\n\t.align 8"))
-        ,IF_ARCH_powerpc(IF_OS_darwin(SLIT(".const_data\n.align 2"),
+        ,IF_ARCH_powerpc(IF_OS_darwin(SLIT(".text\n.align 2"),
                                       SLIT(".data\n\t.align 2"))
        ,)))))