Hi Ben, Am Montag, den 31.10.2011, 09:49 +1100 schrieb Erik de Castro Lopo: > > On 30-Oct-2011, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > > Changes: > > > ghc (7.0.4-8) unstable; urgency=low > > > . > > > * Remove ghci support on powerpc (Closes: #631073) > > > > Does that apply only to ‘ghc’, or to all of Haskell generally? Is there > > another Haskell interpreter which can work on PowerPC that could be used as > > an alternative dependency? > > No, even the Hugs interpreter (which has now bitrotted upstream) is > not a suitable replacement for ghci. > > I have been intermitently working on fixing ghci for powerpc, but its > been rather difficult as the problem is in ghci's runtime linker and > gdb is less useful than normal because it doesn't understand ghci's > stack manipulation.
also note that only ghci was removed, not ghc entirely, so a large portion of the haskell ecosystem is still available on powerpc. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer [email protected] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: [email protected] | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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