Urban Boquist wrote:
> Nope, not anymore... ;-)
> 
> The example I tried was the Glasgow Haskell compiler. There is an
> OpenBSD binary of the latest version but not (yet) for any other
> *BSD. It should in theory not be too difficult to port it to NetBSD
> but it is far from trivial. The compiler is written in Haskell itself
> so there is a complex boot-strapping problem involved. And GHC is also
> a terribly HUGE beast to work with (I know, I have ported it
> before...). So if I could just get the OpenBSD binary running it would
> probably be _a lot_ easier to build a first real NetBSD version.

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?

> If I'm not mistaken they have not gone to ELF (yet?), so they are
> still in the old a.out world. I guess that is a problem if you want to
> do it automatically. [Not very serious suggestion follows ;-] Maybe a
> hack could be done and detect the version of libc that it is linked
> with, I noticed that OpenBSD is up to major number 29 (!) on libc
> these days. Amazing... ;-)

Hmm, this is kinda lame :/

Jaromir
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