Re: building 2.04

1997-06-13 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Mariano Suarez Alvarez writes: > Building ghc-2.04-pl2 on a i586 under linux with a `gcc --version` 2.7.2.1 > in /fptools/ghc, compiling ArrBase.lhs, ghc-0.29 dies saying > > > /tmp/ghc29172.hc:953: fixed or forbidden register was spilled. > > This may be due to a compiler bug or to impossible

building 2.04

1997-06-13 Thread Mariano Suarez Alvarez
Building ghc-2.04-pl2 on a i586 under linux with a `gcc --version` 2.7.2.1 in /fptools/ghc, compiling ArrBase.lhs, ghc-0.29 dies saying > /tmp/ghc29172.hc:953: fixed or forbidden register was spilled. > This may be due to a compiler bug or to impossible asm What then? Mariano. PS: Why is the

Booting ghc-2.04-pl on HPs

1997-06-13 Thread Sven Panne
Trying to boot ghc-2.04 with itself fails on HPs (but I don't think the problems are HP-related). The compiler itself was successfully built, but PrelBase.lhs wasn't so lucky: ghc complained about a parse error in an interface-file (for IOBase, I think). Looking a bit closer into the compile-log