2012/1/2 Erik de Castro Lopo <er...@mega-nerd.com>: > Hi Ulrik, > > Please forgive me contacting you directly like this, but you haven't > responded to my request regarding Debain bug #631073. > > As I mentioned in my response to your post it would be most helpful > if you could help me figure out why GHCi works on your system and > not on mine. > > Specifically, please post the output of the command "cat /proc/cpuinfo" > for your powerpc system where GHCi works correctly.
Don't worry, that was probably the best thing to do. I'm back now and I'll answer. My guess is that it's simple -- ppc32 vs ppc64. I have ghc version 7.0.4-7 and ghci works fine. This computer here is age-old now: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec supported clock : 1199.999000MHz revision : 1.2 (pvr 8003 0102) bogomips : 73.72 timebase : 18432000 platform : PowerMac model : PowerBook6,5 machine : PowerBook6,5 motherboard : PowerBook6,5 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh detected as : 287 (iBook G4) pmac flags : 0000001b L2 cache : 512K unified pmac-generation : NewWorld Memory : 1280 MB $ uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.39-2-powerpc #1 Tue Jul 5 02:51:13 UTC 2011 ppc GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org