On So, 2014-07-13 at 11:07 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Sonntag, den 13.07.2014, 10:13 +0200 schrieb Sebastian Dröge: > > > I would've assumed that ARM should be no problem as apparently quite a > > > few people are using GHC to target Android and iOS... > > > I could probably be more useful with #3 :) > > > > Actually for the ARM problem a short look in the bugtracker gave this: > > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8976 > > > > From reading the linked article it doesn't seem that complicated to get > > it work, most of the work probably being to find a fast ARM machine that > > can be used for building (I don't want to try this on my RPI!). > > I also don’t think its a hard problem, but someone still needs to dig > into it. > > Just use the Debian porter box (see http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi), > that’s what they are for. I'm trying a build now on abel, let's see what happens. It seems the ld.gold wrapper script that filters out some parameters is not needed anymore. compiler/main/SysTools.lhs properly detects gold and only uses those parameters with ld.bfd. > > For MIPS there's a patch in the BTS which would disable dynamic support, > > so that doesn't seem like the best idea: https://bugs.debian.org/751479 > > So that needs some further investigation, but maybe some combination of > > using ld.gold and sprinkling some -fPIC around is already enough. > > Great, give it a shot :-) Seems like you decided to just take that patch instead ;) I guess I'll be busy enough with arm for now.
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