Hi Joachim,
Il Martedì 6 Maggio 2014 23:49, Joachim Breitner <nome...@debian.org> ha scritto: Dear Gianfranco, > >Am Dienstag, den 06.05.2014, 14:38 +0100 schrieb Gianfranco Costamagna: >> I remember a while ago in some discussion you pointed out that without >> people working on arm* platforms the next upload on unstable will >> likely drop arm support because of build failures... >> >> I tried to google a little bit, and *seems* that we can have two >> patches (one from Colin), that *might* bring arm back to experimental >> and ghc 7.8. >> >> I don't know why they haven't been merged (the patch from colin has >> been included into 7.8.20140411-1 but according to buildd [1] it never >> got a chance to build yet). >> >> The other patch should fix armel and upstream seems to have a >> milestone for the fix [2], 7.8.3 version >> >> Do you think is worth an upload and a try? >> Would be nice to have arm still supported on debian and derivates >> >> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=ghc&arch=armhf >> [2] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8976 > >I mostly lack overview of the various issues and tickets, but I’m happy >to apply any relevant patches. Would you be willing to take care of >that, i.e. figure out what exactly to do? I’ll then apply any patches >you want me to apply :-) > I don't really know, I use haskell in some packages I comaintain and I don't want to see it disappear :) So, I tried to read as most as I can the website, but I didn't understand deeply what is the problem https://gist.github.com/bgamari/9399430 this script seems to make haskell build correctly on armel and looking at this bug https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8976 seems that this commit https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/abb86adf7f749b3d44887d28bc96b43c5a1e0631 introduced the bug. Is it possible to try to revert it? maybe it will build. Bootstrapping for arm I don't think is a good solution, since the next upload will likely fail for the same reason... cheers! Gianfranco >Greetings, > >Joachim > >-- >Joachim "nomeata" Breitner >Debian Developer > nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: F0FBF51F > JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-haskell-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1399413754.56646.yahoomail...@web171803.mail.ir2.yahoo.com
