> I can't help but think of that old saying:
> 
>     "The difference between theory and practice is a lot bigger in
>      practice than in theory."
> 
> ...which I think is particularly true when it comes to porting
> compilers... ;-)

Well, we do have old version (4.x) in pkgsrc/lang/ghc, even through it
only works for a.out x86, i.e. max NetBSD 1.5. There is a FreeBSD
port for 5.04.2 (ports/lang/{ghc|ghc-doc}/), so it shouldn't 
(in theory) be particularily hard to make it working under NetBSD.
At worst, using the FreeBSD bootstrap compiler. Or you can just run
the FreeBSD ghc binary under emulation.

Jaromir
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