any successfull ghc registerised builds on arm?

[Simon Marlow]

On 24/01/13 16:58, Nathan Hüsken wrote:
> On 01/24/2013 04:50 PM, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
>> Somebody claiming to be Nathan Hüsken wrote:
>>> On 01/24/2013 04:28 PM, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
>>>>>> Do you think it is specifically the 3.2 that made it work?
>>>>> Yes. With llvm version 3.1 I was only able to get an unregisterised
>>>>> build to work.
>>>> <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/ticket/7621/unregistered-arm-llvm-hack.patch>
>>>>
>>>> ?
>>>
>>> Not exactly, see the patch here:
>>> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2013-January/000118.html
>>> and the changes to compiler/llvmGen/LlvmCodeGen/Ppr.hs
>>
>> Oh, man, the fact that I don't have that setting for QNX is probably not
>> doing me any favours...
>>
>> How the heck am I supposed to figure out what that string should be? :(
>
> Do you mean the data layout? Actually, I have to admit I just copied it
> from arm linux.
>
>>
>> That said... how did you get an unregisterised build to work with an
>> LLVM backend?  Everything I've seen in the code implied that the moment
>> you are unregisteried, it uses via-C...  Which is what my above patch is
>> primarily about.
>>
>
> I ... it just worked :). I passed --enable-unregistered to configure and
> that did the trick. During building it always said "via-C", but it worked.

You're not using LLVM, due to #7622.  I'll push the trivial patch to fix 
that as soon as it has validated here.

Cheers,
	Simon