Re: [Haskell-cafe] build recent(ish) ghc on macos 10.3.9 powerpc?
Hi Uwe, On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 14:04 -0700, Uwe Hollerbach wrote: I'm trying for now to build ghc 6.6.1 -- so I started by upgrading gcc to 3.4.6. That's working. So, with that in place, I went to the porting ghc to a new arch page and started going through the steps. I'm using a laptop running linux as the host computer, so that's i386-unknown-linux, some Fedora core derivative. It's using gcc 3.4.4. I think I did all the initial stuff right, but in the section in the porting guide where it says to start diving into all the subdirectories and do a bunch of make boot make, I start getting errors, and by the time it says to do that in .../libraries, it just croaks. I did a GHC 6.6 bootstrap for Debian/armel a while ago and ran into some minor issues with regard to slight inaccuracies in the documentation and glitches in the GHC build system. A brief overview of what I did is given in a message I sent to the debian-arm list. Unfortunately, I never got around to sending a detailed report upstream :( http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2007/11/msg00038.html I don't know how much of that is applicable when building for a non-linux target, but perhaps it gives you a few pointers. Alternatively, you could make build logs/error messages available, so we can perhaps figure out what's going wrong together. Regards, Rene -- Rene Wagner rw at nelianur dot org http://nelianur.org ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] build recent(ish) ghc on macos 10.3.9 powerpc?
Hello, haskellers, a few days ago I had asked about building recent ghc on macos 10.3.9. I have made a bit of progress along those lines, here's a small update on what worked and what didn't. Instead of trying to proceed with the porting procedure, I went back to an install: I ended up going to 6.2.2. After a bit of fiddling, I found that another bit of messing-about I had done to the machine was messing me up: I had upgraded gcc from 3.3.x to 3.4.6 by just downloading the sources and building. That produced a working gcc 3.4.6, but apparently the apple-aware ghc 6.2.2 and the apple-unaware gcc 3.4.6 didn't play nicely together. Once I disabled gcc 3.4.6, stuff worked again. Then I tried building ghc 6.4.2 using the installed 6.2.2. This took a lot of time, the compiler was able (as far as I could tell) to go through all of its own bootstrapping, but after I happily installed what I thought was a working ghc 6.4.2, the installed version was unable to do anything: it segfaulted while trying to do ghc --version. Oops... Out of somewhat morbid curiosity, I tried running that inside the debugger, but gave up after several hours of elapsed time. Back to the drawing board. So I tried jumping directly from 6.2.2 to 6.6.1; that is, using 6.2.2 to build 6.6.1. That took another lot of time, but I'm happy to report that it has produced a working executable: it did proceed all the way through its bootstrapping, I verified that the executable in compiler/stage2 was able to run ghc --version in-place, and after I installed it, it was still able to do that; and (extra bonus! :-) ) it's also able to compile and link at least one small Haskell program written by me! Cool! I'm going to keep going forward and try to build 6.8.2, and I'll report back if that succeeds, but this is already pretty good progress... regards, Uwe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] build recent(ish) ghc on macos 10.3.9 powerpc?
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Uwe Hollerbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all, I have an old iMac G3, running OSX 10.3.9, to which I have a sentimental attachment. I'd like to get ghc running on it, but the pre-built binaries I can find are all for more-recent iMacs, so I thought I would try to build it myself. I believe I read somewhere that gcc 3.3.X didn't work quite right for recent ghc -- I'm trying for now to build ghc 6.6.1 -- so I started by upgrading gcc to 3.4.6. That's working. So, with that in place, I went to the porting ghc to a new arch page and started going through the steps. I'm using a laptop running linux as the host computer, so that's i386-unknown-linux, some Fedora core derivative. It's using gcc 3.4.4. It looks like ghc 6.4.1 had an installer package for 10.3.9; does that work for you? http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_641.html I think that the current version of ghc is supposed to be buildable with 6.4, so you might be able to bootstrap 6.6 or 6.8 that way, without going through the whole porting process. Let us know if you run into problems with it. Hope that helps, -Judah ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] build recent(ish) ghc on macos 10.3.9 powerpc?
Thanks for the tip, Judah, I went and got the ghc 6.4.1 package... unfortunately, it installs ok, but isn't able to compile anything: I get Unknown pseudo-op: .subsections_via_symbols when I try to build a trivial test program. I found one note on the web that says can't work, needs newer version of XCode than comes with OSX 10.3, and another note that says you have to install all of XCode. So I'm going to see if I missed installing some portion of XCode (I don't think so, but it was a while ago), but otherwise I might just be out of luck :-( Uwe On 3/15/08, Judah Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Uwe Hollerbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all, I have an old iMac G3, running OSX 10.3.9, to which I have a sentimental attachment. I'd like to get ghc running on it, but the pre-built binaries I can find are all for more-recent iMacs, so I thought I would try to build it myself. I believe I read somewhere that gcc 3.3.X didn't work quite right for recent ghc -- I'm trying for now to build ghc 6.6.1 -- so I started by upgrading gcc to 3.4.6. That's working. So, with that in place, I went to the porting ghc to a new arch page and started going through the steps. I'm using a laptop running linux as the host computer, so that's i386-unknown-linux, some Fedora core derivative. It's using gcc 3.4.4. It looks like ghc 6.4.1 had an installer package for 10.3.9; does that work for you? http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_641.html I think that the current version of ghc is supposed to be buildable with 6.4, so you might be able to bootstrap 6.6 or 6.8 that way, without going through the whole porting process. Let us know if you run into problems with it. Hope that helps, -Judah ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] build recent(ish) ghc on macos 10.3.9 powerpc?
[Augh! gmail won't send! Apologies if this shows up more than once...] Hi, all, I have an old iMac G3, running OSX 10.3.9, to which I have a sentimental attachment. I'd like to get ghc running on it, but the pre-built binaries I can find are all for more-recent iMacs, so I thought I would try to build it myself. I believe I read somewhere that gcc 3.3.X didn't work quite right for recent ghc -- I'm trying for now to build ghc 6.6.1 -- so I started by upgrading gcc to 3.4.6. That's working. So, with that in place, I went to the porting ghc to a new arch page and started going through the steps. I'm using a laptop running linux as the host computer, so that's i386-unknown-linux, some Fedora core derivative. It's using gcc 3.4.4. I think I did all the initial stuff right, but in the section in the porting guide where it says to start diving into all the subdirectories and do a bunch of make boot make, I start getting errors, and by the time it says to do that in .../libraries, it just croaks. Did I miss something earlier? Is this a completely hopeless endeavor from the get-go? I'm not even sure what intermediate files or error messages I should post. Any hints appreciated!. If you want to tell me, Uwe, you're a bozo, that's fine, too, and you could well be right, just tell me why... Thanks! Uwe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
