> On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:04:09AM -0700, Simon Marlow wrote:
> > > I noticed that GHC mentions a powerpc AIX port. I was
> > > wondering what the
> > > difficulty would be in porting GHC to Linux-PPC.
> >
> > Probably not too hard. The PPC code is still there, but
> hasn't been tested
> > for a while (AFAIK, ghc 4.xx has never compiled on a PPC).
> You may need to
> > extract some bits from ghc 3.xx's runtime system.
> >
> > We'll certainly help out where possible, but I don't think
> any of us here
> > knows the PPC arch very well...
>
> So, is it best to start out with the .hc files, even though
> they say they
> are for x86? I wasn't quite sure why an architecture was
> specified for the
> .hc files?
Unfortunately the x86 .hc files won't work. You can either bootstrap it
"unregisterised" first (safest) or try to bootstrap a registerised version
using .hc files built on a Sparc (which we don't have yet, but I plan to
build some ASAP).
To bootstrap unregisterised you need to generate some .hc files on another
arch by building GHC and its libs with the -unreg flag.
Cheers,
Simon
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