port GHC to OpenBSD/sparc64 (unregisterised is fine)

[zooko]

Folks:

I'm a developer of the Tahoe-LAFS open source project ( http://allmydata.org ) and we use darcs, and there is a contributor who would like to help us support Tahoe-LAFS on OpenBSD/sparc64 (note: not OpenBSD/sparc). It would be really nice if that contribute could use darcs to get the latest Tahoe-LAFS source code and to contribute patches. But, GHC isn't ported to OpenBSD/sparc64. This ticket is to request the feature of a port of GHC to OpenBSD/sparc64. An unregisterised port would be fine!

Thanks!

[igloo]

This task would need a volunteer to do the bootstrapping (and to get the native code generator working, if that is important to you).

[zooko]

Eric Kow has suggested that we add an OpenBSD/Sparc64 buildslave to the GHC herd of buildslaves.

[igloo]

That would need the port to be bootstrapped first, and for someone to volunteer to run the slave.

[aogail]

Replying to igloo:

That would need the port to be bootstrapped first, and for someone to volunteer to run the slave.

I can volunteer to run a build slave on my OpenBSD/sparc64 system.

[nwf]

Can I request a port to FreeBSD/sparc64, too? I've got a machine that's perfectly happy to be used for the initial bootstrapping and as a build slave subsequently.

[zooko]

Oh, look! aogail and Karel Gardas each gave it a shot:

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.glasgow.user/19024/focus=19046

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.glasgow.user/19023

[aogail]

I've worked a little on an unregisterised build but my lack of free time for this means it's very slow moving. If anyone else wants to give this a shot I can give you shell access to an OpenBSD/sparc64 system.