Re: building ghc on new platform

1998-01-27 Thread Simon L Peyton Jones
Richard Is it true that one must have a working version of ghc on a new in order to port it to that platform or is there a "starters-kit" with which one can start such a port? You can port by starting from the ".hc" files; that is, files that have been compiled to C but not to machine

building ghc on new platform

1998-01-26 Thread Richard Emberson
This is really not a bug report, but I did not want to broadcast my question to all glasgow-haskell-users and waste a lot of peoples bandwidth... If one wised to port ghc to a new platform there would seem to be a bootstrapping problem - that is, the installation guide seems to indicate that one