Subject: Re: "real" OpenBSD compat - how hard would it be?
To: Roland Dowdeswell <elric@imrryr.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/20/2003 12:33:40
--HB4mHL4PVvkpZAgW
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:55:53AM -0500, Roland Dowdeswell wrote:
> On 1048091614 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
> Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> >
>=20
> >If it builds on OpenBSD, it should definitely build on NetBSD
> >too, possibly with only minor adjustments to Makefiles.
> >Is that in their 'ports' system?
>=20
> ghc generates binaries so the fact that OpenBSD uses a.out and we
> use ELF will cause a large difference.  It would be better to start
> from an ELF arch not an a.out arch.

Does it create them internally?

And... couldn't an interpreting Haskell implementation be used for
bootstrapping?

	Ignatios

--HB4mHL4PVvkpZAgW
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.6.i

iQEVAgUBPnmnDTCn4om+4LhpAQG6OQgAjRXGKjHiL3yaWQ+ExcwU4+wIPOOdLO2q
31X2+NvX4J2YKHEKvJGJjwqm8NHtJxNvwBWQ057y6X2IvVuCi/TlyFO8dh/ziYoo
XQbiMdPocOWDMtsQI5MUGsugsCPzQ9hd0lzx59c3QTmx9VnCEgA3B0Vbm9Tc7zad
tsret5F4LeuUQR2t+qUZwyWc3eFH8suUjUCvljPMmgRG0l3CI4EVo7azJUnFgNpL
AarfsnhJpUB/1wTSCPwuOqW9swHxxCaLwUYW45HirgVvY7au8CIzNkJ5AdrO5Kck
CHS/pHi3kOQ+V6jtpD7KCTy9jOKNkzH0ExHzIT86ZHCcun2VIEcZvg==
=rbLX
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--HB4mHL4PVvkpZAgW--