Can't compile GHC 6.8.2

[Thorkil Naur]

Hello,

On Monday 24 November 2008 23:48, Barney Stratford wrote:
> > The heading seems to be: Your build is missing it's required GMP (GNU
> > Multiple Precision) library
> No, I have GMP installed, and it's correctly compiling against it. The
> issue isn't that these symbols are missing altogether, but rather that
> there's something wrong with them. It looks to me like it's identical to
> this bug afflicting 6.9: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2262

Yes, you are right, I didn't address the real issue. Sorry, I don't really 
know what to do about this.

> 
> Cheers,
> Barney.
> 

I notice, however, that the workaround for the issue that you referrred to 
(#2262) was to remove a line saying -fvia-C. That would, in most 
circumstances, be roughly the same as saying -fasm 
(http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/options-phases.html#options-codegen). 
I suggest that you look at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building 
and in particular http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Hacking 
for some inspiration.

Best regards
Thorkil