id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,os,architecture,failure,difficulty,testcase,blockedby,blocking,related
5155,GHC won't configure for i586,mcandre,,"Somone posted about building GHC 6.12.1 for Linux and i586 (http://www.mail-archive.com/glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org/msg17646.html). It was never resolved.

Now I'm trying to configure 7.0.3 for Haiku and i586, and I get the same error.

{{{
~> ./configure --enable-hc-boot --build=i586-pc-haiku --host=i586-pc-haiku --target=i586-pc-haiku
checking for gfind... no
checking for find... /bin/find
checking for sort... /bin/sort
checking for ghc... no
checking build system type... i586-pc-haiku
checking host system type... i586-pc-haiku
checking target system type... i586-pc-haiku
Unknown CPU i586
}}}

I read {{{ config.sub }}}, and it looks like all architectures of the form i*86 should be accepted, but they're not.

Until i586 is added, can someone tell me a correct architecture to supply to {{{ ./configure }}}?

Bear in mind that {{{ --enable-hc-boot }}} is a must, since there is no GHC on Haiku to aid compilation of GHC.",bug,closed,normal,,Compiler,7.0.3,fixed,haiku configure config arch architecture,,Other,x86,Building GHC failed,,,,,