os x 64-bit?

[Gregory Wright]

On 11/10/10 10:44 AM, Antoine Latter wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Gregory Wright<gwright at antiope.com>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I built ghc 7.0.1-rc2 yesterday 64-bit on Snow Leopard.  Much of the work
>> in getting ghc to build 64-bit was done by Barney Stratford; the MacPorts
>> ghc 6.10.4 has built successfully in 64 bit mode for a number of months.
>>
>> Until just a few weeks ago 6.12.x and HEAD wouldn't build 64-bit because
>> of changes in ghci.  These changes were in part to remove the limitation
>> that modules
>> loaded by ghci had to be located below the 2 GB address boundary.
>>   Unfortunately,
>> they revealed code paths in ghc's Mach-O linker that were never tested. (See
>> bug #4318. Other bugs may be partial duplicates; the tickets probably need
>> to be examined to check which ones are distinct.)
>>
>> The good news is that the linker patches were done just in time for 7.0.1.
>> You should be all set to try the release candidates on Snow Leopard 64-bit.
>>
>> I built my 7.0.1-rc2 using a 64 bit 6.10.4.  My original 64-bit 6.10.4 was
>> bootstrapped
>> using a 32-bit 6.10.4 compiled on Leopard.  Reports of trouble building the
>> 7.0.1 release candidates using a 32-bit bootstrap compiler would be
>> especially
>> useful.
> Are there any instructions for building in this fashion from the
> source tarball or from VCS?
>
> Antoine
>
>

Hi Antione,

I used the tarball ghc-7.0.0.20101028.tar.bz2 and followed the 
directions in the README file:

     $ perl boot
     $ ./configure
     $ make

(The "perl boot" command wasn't necessary, since I was building from a 
tarball instead
of a darcs pull.  However, it didn't cause any problems.)

I haven't run a testsuite on the build yet.  Perhaps someone from 
haskell HQ can
tell me which version of the tests I should run on 7.0.1-rc2?

Best Wishes,
Greg