Jaromir Dolecek wrote:

>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.
>
That can only be said by someone that has not tried it. ;-)
It is non-trivial to make it work on NetBSD.  If NetBSD was still
using a.out format it would be relatively easy.

But, please go ahead and do it. :-)

    -- Lennart