> Shin-Cheng Mu wrote:
> > I am trying to build GHC on a Apple Power Macintosh running
> > Linux. I guess I should build from the .hc fiiles. The .hc files
> > for newer versions of GHC are for x86 only. On the other hand,
> > the process of building GHC 0.29 seems to be quite different
> > from newer versions.
>
> I had 2.09 working on AIX boxes (Power/PowerPC), but had
> no luck with 4.x (maybe due to the new RTS).
>
> > Is there a "portable" hc source for newer versions of GHC?
>
> I'd like to build a "portable" version too (for AIX),
> is there a simple recipe for it? From that it would be
> probably easier to try to get a "registerised" version for
> Power/PowerPC again.
Unregisterised/non-assembly-mangled builds of the compiler are almost
working. The .hc files for an unregisterised build are portable. I'll be
happy to help out if anyone want to try to push this the final step.
Cheers,
Simon
