[arch-ports] New Packages & Introduction

[Matthew William Cox]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 09:44:36PM -0400, Zac Brown wrote:
> 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

Sorry, screwed up a version in my prior posting. I meant GHC 4.2.
Apparently the bug has to do with how 4.2 emits assembly that is
inserted by GHC's C code gen. Relevent bug:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1427

Cheers, and thanks for working on ArchPPC

Matt

> 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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