[nhc-bugs] Compiling on SunOS 5.8 x86.

Malcolm Wallace Malcolm.Wallace@cs.york.ac.uk
Wed, 5 Feb 2003 11:32:57 +0000


"Marcus D. Gabriel" <mdg@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> I am boot-strapping on SunOS 5.8, i386, nhc98 1.14a with no Haskell
> compiler available.  The nhc98comp command yields a core on a signal 6
> and 11. Before I investiage further, is nhc98 1.14a known to build for
> SunOS 5.8 x86 or are there any known problems with x86 or SunOS 5.8,
> 5.9?

What version is your C compiler?  Is it Sun's own?  Is it gcc?
If the latter, then there are known problems when building or using
nhc98 with gcc-3.x.  We are thinking about how to fix that, but no
patch is available yet.

Otherwise, I know that nhc98 builds fine on sparc SunOS-5.6 and 5.9,
and I did build nhc98 successfully on an ix86-SunOS-5.8 machine about
six months ago.

Regards,
    Malcolm