Hi Joachim,
On 02/16/13 10:03 PM, Joachim Breitner wrote:
Dear Karel,
Am Samstag, den 16.02.2013, 18:37 +0100 schrieb Karel Gardas:
are you a packager of haskell-platform debian package? If so, then big
thanks! I'm just building ghc builder which requires HsOpenSSL, on
ARM/Linux on i.MX53 and got "clever" idea to shorten the compilation
time by attempt of installing the platform. Wow! I've been surprised
platform is packaged and even more surprised that after installing it, my
cabal install HsOpenSSL
continued directly by compiling HsOpenSSL instead of a lot of
dependencies which were brought by platform.
That's really cool! And thanks a lot for your work!
thanks for the kind words; appreciation is very much appreciated. I’m
CC’ing the Debian Haskell Group – after all the packaging is a group
effort.
If you are surprised to find that the platform is packaged, maybe you
also don’t know that you can install over 500 precompiled Haskell
packages for Debian with apt-get install, and almost all of them also on
ARM (at least those that do not need Template Haskell, and that will
change with GHC 7.4.2 and onwards). I notice that there is not a good
list of all packages, but
http://people.debian.org/~nomeata/hackagevsdebian.html
is one source of information, and then of course on hackage itsel it is
mentioned if a library is included in Debian.
Wow! That looks really impressive! Unfortunately on Debian/ARM I'll need
to calm down your enthusiasm with 7.4.2 and TH, since I think we're
still not there. Well, yes, GHCi is enabled as Ben Gamari provided truly
fantastic work on writing GHC linker support for ARM, but I still see a
lot of GHCi failures in GHC testsuite and also I'm not able to compile
GHC to the end as always linker crashes while compiling some dph
package. That's also the reason why I've finally found some energy to
get GHC builder running again on my i.MX53, although this board is slow
in comparison with current ARM state-of-the art CPUs, still if we see
one or two GHC build failures on ARM per week perhaps some of us or
others developers will find some energy to investigate the latest
missing bits from ghc arm linker support and fix that. :-)
Thanks,
Karel
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