Error building ghc on raspberry pi.

[roconnor at theorem.ca]

I've tried to build 6.12.3, 7.4.1, 7.4.2, and 7.6.1, with a few various 
patches, and I'm stuck in the final stage with errors like:

/usr/bin/ld: error: libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/cbits/debug.o uses VFP register arguments, libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/HSghc-prim-0.3.0.0.o does not

I'm rebuilding with Karel's latest suggestion now.


On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Neil Davies wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've found myself wanting to get GHC 7.4.2 (need TemplateHaskell for something) working on the rapberry pi - can you (or anyone out there) share where you are at?
>
> My starting point is the raspian image of 2012-12-18-wheezy-raspian that has GHC 7.4.1 on it...
>
> Neil
>
> On 11 Jan 2013, at 20:25, roconnor at theorem.ca wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Karel Gardas wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hmm, are you using Raspbian? I.e. hard-float abi caught my eye in case of ARMv6/ARM11 chip here...
>>>
>>> I'm afraid LLVM is not well guided in your case so could you be so kind and test if adding -optlc=-mattr=+vfp2 helps? You need to add it to your build.mk probably and you will need to rebuild everything again...
>>
>> Add it to the GhcLibHcOpts?
>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Karel
>>
>> --
>> Russell O'Connor                                      <http://r6.ca/>
>> ``All talk about `theft,''' the general counsel of the American Graphophone
>> Company wrote, ``is the merest claptrap, for there exists no property in
>> ideas musical, literary or artistic, except as defined by statute.''
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list
>> Glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
>> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
>

-- 
Russell O'Connor                                      <http://r6.ca/>
``All talk about `theft,''' the general counsel of the American Graphophone
Company wrote, ``is the merest claptrap, for there exists no property in
ideas musical, literary or artistic, except as defined by statute.''