cross-compiling ghc to openbsd

[Don Stewart]

Why cross compile when we already have a native GHC on OpenBSD/x86_64 ..
use that to build the source directly.

khaelin:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to cross-compile GHC as follows:
> 
> Host: Linux, x86_64, GHC 6.12.1
> Target: OpenBSD 4.6 stable, i386
> 
> I follow the guide at:
>     http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting
> 
> I downloaded the last stable source tarball (ghc-6.12.1-src.tar.bz2), then ran
> the following commands:
> 
> export AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.62
> export AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.9
> cp /bin/pwd utils/ghc-pwd/ghc-pwd
> sh boot
> ./configure --enable-hc-boot --build=i386-unknown-openbsd --host=i386-unknown-openbsd --target=i386-unknown-openbsd
> gmake bootstrapping-files
> 
> The latest fails, with the following trace:
>     http://pastebin.ca/1770926
> 
> The following errors are quite interesting:
>     includes/stg/Types.h:103:2: #error GHC untested on this architecture: sizeof(void *) != 4 or 8
>     includes/rts/Constants.h:156:2: #error unknown SIZEOF_VOID_P
> 
> Does someone what's going on with this build ?
> Is there something I can to to help on these issues ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Nicolas Martyanoff
>    http://codemore.org
>    khaelin at gmail.com



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