I'm going to have a go at this when GHC 6.12.1 is released (32-bit DragonFly). It looks very intimidating, as I don't know x86 assembler, nor DragonFly internals, but I dare say I can shrug off 15 years of not doing anything so low-level, and get to grips with it.
2009/5/23 G.Isenmann <i...@goetz-isenmann.de>: > On Sat, 16 May 2009 19:09:06 +0100 > Colin Adams <colinpaulad...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> I think someone was making an attempt to port ghc (Glasgow Haskell >> Compiler) to DragonFly. Has this been succesfull? > > Neither lang/ghc (6.8.3) nor wip/ghc (6.10.1) build without changes. > > I started with wip/ghc and made the build process believe that the > build was on and for freebsd4. That gave me something good enought as a > bootstrap compiler. Wasn't able to build a ghc package, and while > building some packages with cabal I got error messages like "not > possible with a stage 1 compiler". > > Next I used this compiler (without pkgsrc and netbsd bootstrap > compiler) to build the next version. This time I checked the sources > for anything freebsd specific and modified those places to do the > same for dragonfly. > > There is at least one open problem with rts/Linker.c > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2009-04/msg00030.html > This prevents the use of ghci and the build of e.g. yi. > > Not much done since. At the moment I am happy with a working darcs and > xmonad. I have looked a few times into the binutils and ghc sources, > but still do not understand much about this (tls) stuff. > -- > Goetz > -- Colin Adams Preston, Lancashire, ENGLAND