Re: building 5.04.3 on sparc-solaris-2.6

"Simon Marlow" <simonmar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > I'm trying to build ghc-5.04.3 from source on a sparc-solaris-2.6
> > machine, using 5.02.3.  It throws up the following build error.
> > Any ideas what might be going wrong?
> 
> I'm not sure, and I'm afraid our one and only Sparc box has just died,
> probably permanently :-(  The 5.04.3 build *did* go through prior to the
> box dying, though.

I wonder if the following warnings (very early in the build) might have
anything to do with it?

Regards,
    Malcolm

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==fptools== make boot -wr;
 in /export/home/malcolm/ghc-5.04.3/ghc/includes
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Creating config.h...
Done.
gcc -O    -c mkDerivedConstants.c -o mkDerivedConstants.o
gcc -o mkDerivedConstantsHdr -O       mkDerivedConstants.o
./mkDerivedConstantsHdr >DerivedConstants.h
gcc -O    -c mkNativeHdr.c -o mkNativeHdr.o
In file included from Stg.h:182,
                 from mkNativeHdr.c:10:
Regs.h:245: warning: call-clobbered register used for global register variable
Regs.h:251: warning: call-clobbered register used for global register variable
Regs.h:257: warning: call-clobbered register used for global register variable
Regs.h:263: warning: call-clobbered register used for global register variable
Regs.h:269: warning: call-clobbered register used for global register variable
Regs.h:269: warning: call-clobbered register used for global register variable
Regs.h:275: warning: call-clobbered register used for global register variable
Regs.h:275: warning: call-clobbered register used for global register variable
gcc -o mkNativeHdr -O       mkNativeHdr.o
./mkNativeHdr >NativeDefs.h
../../glafp-utils/mkdependC/mkdependC -f .depend     -- -O    -- 
mkDerivedConstants.c mkNativeHdr.c