[Haskell-cafe] building ghc on arch linux ARM?

[Yves Parès]

> All these are not cross-compiled, but natively
> compiled on the repective architecture, and I don’t think it is easily
> possible to cross-compile GHC itself even today.

So how did they get compiled the first time? How do you get a GHC working
on *or* for an ARM platform if you don't use Debian?
And why was Joey Hess talking about performance issues?
(I'll be eventually interested, as Graham Klyne suggested earlier, in
compiling for Raspberry Pi, if the hardware suits).


Le 10 avril 2012 12:49, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> a écrit
:

> Hi,
>
> Am Dienstag, den 10.04.2012, 12:36 +0200 schrieb Yves Parès:
> > For instance, yes.
> > I think I had seen some times on this mailing list or on blog posts
> > (http://ghcarm.wordpress.com/) people having used GHC on ARM platform.
> > I distinctly remember having seen on the mailing list that
> > cross-compiling wasn't working but that we now can compile with GHC on
> > ARM, which means GHC can be compiled for ARM.
>
> I’m not sure what the news are here: Debian has provided ghc6 on arm at
> least since Debian etch in 2006 (GHC 6.6), and the first Debian release
> with ghc6 (Debian sarge) ships it on alpha hppa i386 ia64 m68k powerpc
> s390 and sparc (GHC 6.2). All these are not cross-compiled, but natively
> compiled on the repective architecture, and I don’t think it is easily
> possible to cross-compile GHC itself even today. (All data from
> http://archive.debian.net/)
>
> Greetings,
> Joachim
>
>
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