Re: lang/ghc for netbsd amd64?

[Havard Eidnes <he%uninett.no@localhost>]

> Why isnt lang/ghc avaible for NetBSD amd64?

You could ask the ghc maintainers? :-)

Briefly, porting ghc is Not Trivial.

A few months back I made a few stabs at trying to make it run on amd64
and macppc.  If I recall correctly, the GHC build system wants to use an
existing ghc during the build, and has serious issues related to cross-
builds, particularly when the target architecture has different data
sizes than the host, as is the case when doing i386 -> amd64.

For macppc (I tried on 3.1), I managed to get a first-phase interpreted
ghc to build, but I got stuck on issues related to the linker when trying
to build a "native" ghc; specifically ld failed to pick up objects in
some of the built libraries even though the symbols it wanted were
available.

Regards,

- Håvard