On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:21:19PM -0700, Donn Cave wrote: > So here I am with 64 bit Athlon hardware, running amd64 > NetBSD (a.k.a. x86_64), reasonably motivated to compile > Haskell. From what I make of the porting instructions,
So, we are in the same boat then! > my only hope is to install FreeBSD-amd64 on another > partition and download the 6.6.1 ghc for that platform, > use it to generate .hc files to build 6.6.1 on NetBSD, > and then use 6.6.1 to build 6.8 or whatever the current > version may be by the time I get there? > But what I thought was rather to go with OpenBSD, since I figured that it would be closer to NetBSD (You can e.g. build ghc on OpenBSD using NetBSD-generated .hc files on i386), and generate the .hc files on OpenBSD. I have unfortunately not got any further than getting an openbsd partition though, have not had the time to get into the actual porting. Emil > -- > Donn Cave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Emil Sköldberg _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe