Re: [Haskell-cafe] build recent(ish) ghc on macos 10.3.9 powerpc?

2008-03-18 Thread Rene Wagner
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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] build recent(ish) ghc on macos 10.3.9 powerpc?

2008-03-18 Thread Uwe Hollerbach
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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] build recent(ish) ghc on macos 10.3.9 powerpc?

2008-03-16 Thread Judah Jacobson
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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] build recent(ish) ghc on macos 10.3.9 powerpc?

2008-03-16 Thread Uwe Hollerbach
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

[Haskell-cafe] build recent(ish) ghc on macos 10.3.9 powerpc?

2008-03-15 Thread Uwe Hollerbach
[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