gcc version for GHC 6.10.4 under Sparc/Solaris

[Duncan Coutts]

On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 10:04 +0200, Christian Maeder wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
> could you add a note on the download page that
> GCC version 4.3.x is not suited for:
> 
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.10.4/maeder/ghc-6.10.4-sparc-sun-solaris2.tar.bz2
> 
> The binary-dist was compiled using gcc-4.2.2 (but also works i.e. for
> gcc-3.4.4)

I should also note that there is a GHC 6.10.4 binary for Sparc/Linux
that is now included with Gentoo. It's got all features turned on except
for split objects (which fails due to mixing ld -r and --relax flags).
In particular it's a registerised via-C build with ghci, TH and
profiling working.

It's a distro package not a generic relocatable GHC binary tarball so
there's no point putting it on the ghc download page, but it's there
nevertheless if people want it (look for the gentoo ghc ebuild).

Duncan