I am trying to fix ghc compiler for PowerPC Macs. I was able to build ghc 7.6.3 after bootstrapping ghc 7.0.1 from existing semi-official source, however as of now 7.7 and 7.8.4 fail to build with an odd error.
I describe the progress here: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/64698
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