Building ghc on raspberry pi.

[Neil Davies]

Understood

I've got another RPi supposed to arrive this week - would more computation power help anyone out there?

Neil

On 13 Jan 2013, at 15:59, roconnor at theorem.ca wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Jan 2013, Neil Davies wrote:
> 
>> Sounds like we're close - I must admit I've slightly lost track of the things that need to be done.
>> 
>> Can we start collecting the pre-conditionds and steps, when each complete build takes best part of a day, its difficult to keep the context.
>> 
>> So - taking the ghc 7.4.1 that is part of raspian wheezy (pkg version 7.4.1-4+rpi1) which depends upon (amongst others) llvm-3.0 (pkg version 3.0-10), can we capture the changes?
>> 
>> 
>> Which version of LLVM is being used?
> 
> I'm using LLVM 3.1 and gcc 4.6.3 and ghc 7.4.1.
> 
>> Which ghc source(s) are you starting from?
> 
> ghc-7.6.1 with http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/ticket/5914/0001-add-support-for-ARM-hard-float-ABI-fixes-5914.patch
> applied, fixing the hunks in compiler/main/DriverPipeline.hs by hand.
> 
>> What files did you need to touch in the make process?  Please supply diffs
> 
> I've been fiddling with various parmameters in mk/build.mk.
> 
>> Anything else?
> 
> I haven't got it compiling yet.
> 
> Oh I'm currently using the raspian distriubtion with uses the hard-float ABI, but my end-goal is to bootstrap a nix package.
> 
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