[GHC] #1717: ghc-6.8 configure does not recognise 32bit userland on ppc64

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#1717: ghc-6.8 configure does not recognise 32bit userland on ppc64
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 Reporter:  kahl at cas.mcmaster.ca  |          Owner:             
     Type:  bug                   |         Status:  reopened   
 Priority:  normal                |      Milestone:  6.10 branch
Component:  Build System          |        Version:  6.8        
 Severity:  normal                |     Resolution:             
 Keywords:                        |     Difficulty:  Easy (1 hr)
 Testcase:  normal build          |   Architecture:  powerpc64  
       Os:  Linux                 |  
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Changes (by igloo):

  * milestone:  6.8.3 => 6.10 branch

Comment:

 It looks like some normalisation would be necessary:
 {{{
 ian at matrix:~$ uname -m
 i686
 ian at matrix:~$ gcc -dumpmachine
 i486-linux-gnu
 }}}

 {{{
 $ uname -m
 i686
 $ gcc -dumpmachine
 mingw32
 }}}
 I'm moving this to the 6.10 branch, as I don't think there's much
 advantage to doing this in 6.8.3, but there is the potential for the build
 to abort in some cases that are OK but that we didn't test.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1717#comment:16>
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