Great work!
Thank you!A.S.
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Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece
On Thursday, February 13, 2020, 9:59:22 AM GMT+2, Compl Yue via
illumos-discuss <[email protected]> wrote:
I verified that the problem in GHC 8.6.5 can be solved by backporting merge
request 87, a patch as well as the build steps have been updated at
https://gitlab.haskell.org/complyue/smart-ghc8, enjoy!
On 2020/2/10 下午4:25, Compl Yue via ghc-devs wrote:
Folks,
I'm glad to report that I finally get GHC 8.8.2 with cabal-install 3.0.0.0
working on SmartOS x64, you can checkout detailed steps and all the patches
applied at https://gitlab.haskell.org/complyue/smart-ghc8
The only pity so far, is that the built GHC 8.6.5 has its `ghci` not working
with a strange iconv error, and failing building one of my Haskell
applications. I myself am going to use 8.8.2 where possible from now on. But
given not all great libs have been updated being 8.8 compatible, I feel it
still worth some further effort to get 8.6.5 working.
And regarding stack, as it's focused on managing binary distributions of GHC
(build-from-src not working very well per my experience), it'll need a trusted
binary repository for stack to work with on SmartOS. A private http server
hosting the bindists should be straight forward, but I'm not interested to host
a publicly available binary repository with those bindist tarballs digitally
signed (or there're security concerns). If anyone is interested, I'd like to
help as far as I can.
I would particular like to see Nix be ported to SmartOS/Illumos/Solaris, so I
could contribute to nixpkgs instead, which should save more asses in tool
dependency resolution, but seems that's not an option in near future.
I'm thankful to folks at #ghc and #smartos who helped me so much in this
journey. Especially bgamari, without his hints and bleeding edge patches this
won't be possible at all. And thanks to geekosaur for his professional insights
into the linker situation on SmartOS, quick and precise identification of the
problem from the error messages so confusing to me.
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05016.html
provided the information to get me started at all, and thanks to Jonathan
Perkin for confirming the bootstrapping path being a viable route in the first
place.
Cheers,
Compl Yue
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