Re: Making GHC work on BSD

2008-09-12 Thread Donn Cave
Quoth Philip Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:13 AM, Ian Lynagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:08:27PM +0200, Thorkil Naur wrote: | | take the latest (7.0) FreeBSD and install that. | | So, it would be useful to know, which FreeBSD version would you

Re: Making GHC work on BSD

2008-09-09 Thread Simon Marlow
Donn Cave wrote: | ... and one that I think applies to all the *BSDs: | | 2063Breackage on OpenBSD due to mmap remap | | (actually the latter one is a top priority, because without it GHCi can't | work, so we need it fixed for 6.10.1). Is this a change from 6.8.3? NetBSD currently

Re: Making GHC work on BSD

2008-09-08 Thread Donn Cave
Quoth Simon Peyton-Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | Dear BDS hackers ... | So this message is to say: if you'd like GHC on BSD, please help! No help | probably means no GHC. Time is short before GHC 6.10. ... | There's also one NetBSD-specific ticket: | | 2351NetBSD defines ELF_ST_TYPE In case I

Re: Making GHC work on BSD

2008-09-08 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Monday 08 September 2008 14:22, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: Dear BDS hackers We'd like GHC to be buildable on BSD, but at the moment it isn't. We support GHC on Linux, Windows, Mac, but we really need help with BSD. I would like to do something about this. I have (a number of) x86s