Issues face while building glassgow haskell compiler package on power - ppc64le - architecture

I am a newbie to GHC platform. I am trying to port GHC to my power architecture , and whilst following the below:

1. wget http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.6.3/ghc-7.6.3-src.tar.bz2
2. tar xjvf ghc-7.6.3-src.tar.bz2
3. cd ghc-7.6.3
4. ./configure --enable-hc-boot --enable-hc-boot-unregisterised
5. make
6. sudo make install

I am getting below errors while performing above step 4 :

configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-hc-boot-unregisterised checking for gfind... no checking for find... /usr/bin/find checking for sort... /usr/bin/sort checking for ghc... no checking build system type... ./config.guess: unable to guess system type

This script, last modified 2012-02-10, has failed to recognize the operating system you are using. It is advised that you download the most up to date version of the config scripts from

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD

and

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If the version you run (./config.guess) is already up to date, please send the following data and any information you think might be pertinent to <config-patches@gnu.org> in order to provide the needed information to handle your system.

config.guess timestamp = 2012-02-10

uname -m = ppc64le uname -r = 3.16.0-23-generic uname -s = Linux uname -v = #31 (closed)-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 21 17:55:08 UTC 2014

/usr/bin/uname -p = /bin/uname -X =

hostinfo = /bin/universe = /usr/bin/arch -k = /bin/arch = /usr/bin/oslevel = /usr/convex/getsysinfo =

UNAME_MACHINE = ppc64le UNAME_RELEASE = 3.16.0-23-generic UNAME_SYSTEM = Linux UNAME_VERSION = #31 (closed)-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 21 17:55:08 UTC 2014 configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one

My system arch is as below : $ lscpu Architecture: ppc64le Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 2 On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 2 Socket(s): 1 NUMA node(s): 1 Model: IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu) Hypervisor vendor: KVM Virtualization type: full L1d cache: 64K L1i cache: 32K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0,1

Any pointers in above will be greatly appreciated.

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Trac field	Value
Version	7.6.3
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Compiler
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Operating system	Unknown/Multiple
Architecture	Unknown/Multiple

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This is fixed in HEAD.

The port to powerpc64le was done in ticket #9863 (closed). The patch applies with minimal changes to release 7.10.1 https://build.opensuse.org/source/devel:languages:haskell:lts/ghc/0001-implement-native-code-generator-for-ppc64.patch?rev=b4a84907abb1251170ffd8d48b45ec60 and also to 7.8.4 (with a few more changes)https://build.opensuse.org/source/devel:languages:haskell/ghc/0001-implement-native-code-generator-for-ppc64.patch?rev=2a88150541f7efa445602b8730d72bae.

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Resolution	Unresolved → ResolvedInvalid

Hi ,

WIll this patch work for " power - ppc64le - architecture " ?

Regards, Amit

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Operating system	Unknown/Multiple → Linux
Architecture	Unknown/Multiple → Other

Replying to [ticket:10610#comment:102009 amitkumar_ghatwal]:

Hi ,

WIll this patch work for " power - ppc64le - architecture " ?

Yes, it does.

In any event configure --enable-hc-boot --enable-hc-boot-unregisterised has not worked for a very, very long time. You should follow the instructions at Building/CrossCompiling instead, either using the native code generator that is new in HEAD, or using the C backend via --enable-unregisterised. You will require a system that can run both GHC and a cross-compiler to ppc64le.

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