Can't compile GHC

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Mon May 9 13:03:31 EDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 12:32 -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Duncan Coutts wrote:
> 
> > This route is going to be your best bet. Find any binary version of ghc
> > that works on your Solaris and then from there you've broken the
> > GHC<->GHC dep cycle.
> 
> Okay. Is there a version that's more likely to work than others? Or 
> should I try them sequentially from most recent, then go backwards?

I don't know of a 'best' version, so probably just try them in order.
I've not actually compiled ghc on Solaris myself the IT people did that
(though I have boostrapped from a binary snapshot on Sparc Linux which
has most of the same issues as Sparc Solaris).

Duncan



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