porting ghc-6.4 to x86_64

[Andrei A. Voropaev]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 02:09:03PM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 21 March 2005 09:52, Andrei A. Voropaev wrote:
> 
> > I know that this has been done already (at least by RedHat), but
> > since I 
> > don't use RedHat (or any other distro of linux) and instead compiled
> > everything myself, I have to bootstrap ghc as well. So I'm carefully
> > following the instruction. On my host (i386) I have ghc-6.2.2 (and
> > ghc-6.4). Looks like I have some problem.
> > 
> > As far as I understand this should fail.
> > 
> > $ cd H/ghc && make boot && make
> > .....
> > ==fptools== make all -r;
> >  in /usr/local/src/ghc-6.4/ghc/rts
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ../../ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace -H16m -O -H32m -keep-hc-files -static
> > -I. -#include Prelude.h -#include Rts.h -#include RtsFlags.h
> > -#include RtsUtils.h -#include StgRun.h -#include Schedule.h
> > -#include Printer.h -#include Sanity.h -#include STM.h -#include
> > Storage.h -#include SchedAPI.h -#include Timer.h -#include Itimer.h
> > -#include ProfHeap.h -#include LdvProfile.h -#include Profiling.h
> > -#include Apply.h -fvia-C -dcmm-lint     -c Apply.cmm -o Apply.o      
> > In file included from Apply.cmm:13:
> > /usr/local/src/ghc-6.4/ghc/includes/Cmm.h:288: #error mp_limb_t !=
> > StgWord: assumptions in PrimOps.cmm are now false 
> > make[1]: *** [Apply.o] Error 1
> > make: *** [all] Error 1
> 
> Yes, I hit exactly this problem when I recently bootstrapped on x86_64.
> IIRC, the solution was to make the RTS compile.
> 
> Did you copy across ghc/includes/DerivedConstants.h and
> ghc/includes/GHCConstants.h from the target to the host?  I think that
> should fix the above error (the docs do say you have to do this, so
> perhaps it's something else).

Sure enough I did. As I said, I carefully followed the instructions. I
repeated the whole process 3 times to make sure I didn't forget
something :)

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