Re: building ghc on new platform

[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 code.
I don't think we've put up the .hc files in the releases for
a while, perhaps becuause there is a ghc available for most
platforms now.  Are you working on a new one?

Simon