[Haskell-cafe] Re: Compiling GHC for AIX5.1L

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

jgoerzen:
> On 2004-09-30, Donald Bruce Stewart <dons at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> > You can use make -k to keep going, I seem to remember, or use -pgmltrue,
> 
> Those tricks got me farther.  Now I'm on the target and stuck at:
> 
> gmake[5]: Entering directory
> `/home/jgoerzen/programs/unreg/ghc-6.2.1/ghc/rts/gm
> p/mpn'
> m4 -DPIC -DOPERATION_mul_1 mul_1.asm >tmp-mul_1.s
> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..
> -I.. -DOPE
> RATION_mul_1    -g -O2 tmp-mul_1.s -o mul_1.lo
> gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -DOPERATION_mul_1 -g -O2
> tmp-mul_1.s -o
>  mul_1.o
>  tmp-mul_1.s: Assembler messages:
>  tmp-mul_1.s:55: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mulhwu'
>  tmp-mul_1.s:61: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mulhwu'
>  tmp-mul_1.s:67: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mulhwu'
>  tmp-mul_1.s:73: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mulhwu'
>  tmp-mul_1.s:82: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mulhwu'
>  tmp-mul_1.s:91: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mulhwu'
>  gmake[5]: *** [mul_1.lo] Error 1
>  gmake[5]: Leaving directory
>  `/home/jgoerzen/programs/unreg/ghc-6.2.1/ghc/rts/gmp
>  /mpn'

It could be that gmp is a bit too old for your platform. This has been
the case on other rarer platforms, and on (all?) 64bit archs. One
solution is to install a native, newer libgmp yourself (from the
vendor), and then add appropriate flags to have ./configure and gcc/ghc
find the library (if it isn't in a standard location).

On Irix I needed:
        export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/freeware/lib64"
        export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/freeware/include"

        cat >> mk/build.mk <<END
        SRC_CC_OPTS+=-L/usr/freeware/lib64
        SRC_HC_OPTS+=-L/usr/freeware/lib64

And you may need similar if libgmp lives somewhere other than /usr/lib on AIX.

-- Don