On 12 September 2005 12:53, Wilhelm B. Kloke wrote: > Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> On 06 September 2005 15:33, Wilhelm B. Kloke wrote: >> >>> I have a FreeBSD box running FreeSD-amd64-6.0. Is there anybody who >>> can give me a set of .hc files (probably from linux x86_64) to build >>> GHC? I tried to follow the instructions to crossbuild from >>> FreeBSD-i386, but my attempts failed for reasons I don't understand. >> >> I have an account on a box, but haven't yet had time to do the port. >> >> If you let us know where your build got stuck, we might be able to >> help you out. > > Thank you for answering. This is more complicated to do it fast. > I tried to follow the building guide for a new port. IIRC there were > messages related to the difference in range for 64bit constants in the > header files for amd64 and the range which 32bit GHC could handle. > For now I have screwed up both build trees. I am going to restart the > process with fresh copies to give the exact information. > > I was just hoping that a set of Linux-64 .hc files would do > the job for FreeBSD, too. > > BTW, should I hold my breath for 6.4.1?
You should certainly bootstrap using a 6.4.1 snapshot source tree, because there have been plenty of amd64-related fixes. There won't be a lot of change between now and the 6.4.1 release. Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users