Error building ghc on raspberry pi.

[Neil Davies]

That's good to hear - we've got AFS and the dev-RPi's are using it…

Neil
On 25 Jan 2013, at 12:20, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 25/01/13 11:23, Neil Davies wrote:
>> Simon
>> 
>> Looking at the wiki - I take it that the stage 1 compiler can now be used as "native" compiler on the RPi? (last line of entry)?
> 
> Do you mean the stage 2 compiler?  If so yes - in principle.  But in practice the binary-dist machinery doesn't work properly for cross-compilers yet, so it's hard to install it on the RPi.  If you have a shared network filesystem then perhaps 'make install' works, or if you copy the build tree to your RPi at the same location as your build machine, then maybe it will work.
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Simon
> 
> 
> 
>> Neil
>> 
>> On 25 Jan 2013, at 10:46, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> FYI, I created a wiki page for cross-compiling to Raspberry Pi:
>>> 
>>> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/RaspberryPi
>>> 
>>> I have an unregisterised build using LLVM working now (it just worked, modulo the tiny fix for #7622).
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 	Simon
>>> 
>>> On 21/01/13 16:06, Karel Gardas wrote:
>>>> On 01/21/13 04:43 PM, roconnor at theorem.ca wrote:
>>>>> So the binary-dist has a settings.in file. It is the configure step in
>>>>> the binary-dist that generates the corrupt settings file.
>>>> 
>>>> Perhaps you've forgotten to regenerate bin-dist configure as you did
>>>> with build tree configure after applying my patch?
>>>> 
>>>>> I'll try to poke around to see where and why the stage2 compiler and the
>>>>> binary-dist compiler differ.
>>>> 
>>>> Please post your findings here, I'm really curious what is the culprit
>>>> here...
>>>> 
>>>> Karel
>>>> 
>>>> 
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