GHC on OpenIndiana

[Ian Lynagh]

Hi Apostolos,

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 09:07:56AM -0400, asyropoulos at aol.com wrote:
> 
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.4.1/html/building/sec-porting-ghc.html#sec-booting-from-hc

Some community members have made Solaris binary distributions in the
past. It would be easier to start from one of those rather than trying
to port GHC. It looks like the latest one is here:

    http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_0_3#x86solaris

> checking build system type... i386-pc-solaris2.11
> checking host system type... i386-pc-solaris2.11
> checking target system type... i386-pc-solaris2.11
> HOST: i386-pc-solaris2.11
> Can't work out build platform
> 
> 
> Not e that configure.ac contains a section on Solaris:

You probably need to normalise solaris2* to solaris2 in aclocal.m4
(search for "solaris").


Thanks
Ian