[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#631073: Attention Ulrik Sverdrup re Debian bug 631073

[Ulrik Sverdrup]

2012/1/2 Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd at 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