The current version doesn't build for me on sparc64 Debian
mostly-stable.  The system has ghc 6.2.2, which I assume is the
relevant thing; it differs from stable in having an updated libc and a
few other things, and gcc 4.0.3.  It looks as if I last pulled patches
on 2006-01-31, and I think that version built, but I did a make
distclean before getting the following, so I can't be sure.

  $ nice make
  rm -f Main.hi Main.o
  ghc -cpp  -package QuickCheck -package parsec -package unix -O -funbox-strict-fields  -Wall -Werror -I. -DHAVE_CURSES -DHAVE_CURL -optl-L/usr/lib -optl-lcurl -optl-lidn -optl-lssl -optl-lcrypto -optl-ldl -optl-lssl -optl-lcrypto -optl-ldl -optl-lz -optl-lcurses -o stringify stringify.hs
  /tmp/ghc19443.hc: In function '__stginit_Main':
  /tmp/ghc19443.hc:6: note: if this code is reached, the program will abort
  /tmp/ghc19443.hc: In function '__stginit_ZCMain':
  /tmp/ghc19443.hc:19: note: if this code is reached, the program will abort

  [... Lots of similar messages ...]

  /tmp/ghc19443.hc: In function 'Main_main_entry':
  /tmp/ghc19443.hc:727: note: if this code is reached, the program will abort
  /tmp/ghc19443.hc: In function 'ZCMain_main_slow':
  /tmp/ghc19443.hc:742: note: if this code is reached, the program will abort
  PATH=".:$PATH" darcs changes --context | cat config.command - \
                  | ./stringify Context context > \Context.hs
  make: *** [Context.hs] Error 132

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 02:47:27PM +0000, Dave Love wrote:
> The current version doesn't build for me on sparc64 Debian
> mostly-stable.  The system has ghc 6.2.2, which I assume is the
> relevant thing; it differs from stable in having an updated libc and a
> few other things, and gcc 4.0.3.  It looks as if I last pulled patches
> on 2006-01-31, and I think that version built, but I did a make
> distclean before getting the following, so I can't be sure.

I seem to recall that some version of ghc won't work with gcc 4.  Is there
any chance you could revert your gcc back and see how that works? The
trouble is (approximately) that ghc uses gcc to compile intermediate code,
but then modifies the compiled code again to implement a few other tricks,
so ghc is pretty closely tied to gcc.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.darcs.net

I don't believe we support GHC 6.2 any more. Closing as "wont-fix".