Error building ghc on raspberry pi.

[roconnor at theorem.ca]

What version of GHC did you build?

On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Ben Gamari wrote:

> Karel Gardas <karel.gardas at centrum.cz> writes:
>
>> On 01/11/13 09:25 PM, 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?
>>
>> Probably too, I'm not the expert here, just make sure you use this
>> option for any ghc invocation which invokes llc to get consistent vfp
>> usage in your object files...
>>
> I've been struggling with this class of error recently as well.
>
> After several failed builds I arrived at the following on my Pandaboard,
>
>    SRC_HC_OPTS = -H64m -Rghc-timing -optc-mfloat-abi=hard -optc-mcpu=cortex-a9 -optlc-float-abi=hard -optlc-mcpu=cortex-a9
>
> I've found it's best to set both gcc and llc arguments as they tend to
> disagree when you least expect it. I'm not sure whether SRC_HC_OPTS is
> too large a hammer, but it seems to work for me.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>

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