RE: Porting to powerpc-linux

2000-10-12 Thread Simon Marlow
> I'm guessing I didn't do the b1 build right. The compiler it > generated > builds, but doesn't even run. Do I need to add the > unregistered options > throughout the build, or just in the library? Just the libraries and the RTS in b1, and the compiler in b2. You can check that things are w

Re: Porting to powerpc-linux

2000-10-11 Thread David Brown
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 03:15:49AM -0700, Simon Marlow wrote: > > I've got my x86 linux box ready to build some unregistered .hc files. > > You'll need two build trees. In the first tree, build the compiler as > normal, and the libraries/RTS with -unreg -keep-hc-files-too. You should be > able

RE: Porting to powerpc-linux

2000-10-10 Thread Simon Marlow
> I'm considering taking some effort to port GHC to powerpc > linux. The task > seems moderately doable, given that GHC once ran on the powerpc > architecture. Cool! :) > I guess as a good first question: should I start with 4.08.1, > or should I > venture off with the CVS tree. The driver i

Porting to powerpc-linux

2000-10-09 Thread David Brown
I'm considering taking some effort to port GHC to powerpc linux. The task seems moderately doable, given that GHC once ran on the powerpc architecture. I guess as a good first question: should I start with 4.08.1, or should I venture off with the CVS tree. The driver in CVS seems to have been w