[arch-ports] New Packages & Introduction

[Zac Brown]

GHC built just fine for me. I bootstrapped with GHC 6.4 generic ppc and 
then rebuilt the 6.6.1 package with the bootstrapped compiled version. 
Tested it out and it should be fine. :)

Zac

Matthew William Cox wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 10:32:39AM -0400, Zac Brown wrote:
>   
>> 	I'm currently working on building some devel packages (ghc-6.6.1,
>> erlang, and others) since I've noticed we're lacking there though other
>> places as well. Hope to meet you all at one time or another.
>>     
>
> GHC is currently broken with GCC 4.1. I tried building it with GCC-3.3
> and a ghc binary from the gentoo-ppc team. I got it to build that way a
> coupla months ago, but then stupidly reformatted my HD without backing
> it up (I forgot a lot of stuff.) SInce then, I haven't been able to get
> it to build.
>
> I'm waiting for GHC 6.8 which should be out this fall, and promises to
> fix some issues that make it a bitch to build. Good luck in the mean
> time ;)
>
> Matt
>
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