Re: jessie for x32
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 05:00:30PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 03:56:20AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > On the other hand, ghc looks like something that needs just more tuits
> > and reading about bootstrapping it (no per-arch porting required).
>
> Bootstrapping our current version (7.6) on a new architecture directly
> is fiendishly complex and basically broken
Great to know this before taking the time, thanks!
> the simplest procedure I've found involves going via 7.8 (yes, really).
> But I bootstrapped ghc successfully that way on arm64 and ppc64el, and I
> can probably remember enough of how I did it to put it together for x32 as
> well. I'll give it a shot and let you know.
Would be nice.
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