I've updated the configure script to download the mingw distribution on the fly (D339 <https://phabricator.haskell.org/D339>, #9218 <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9218>). I could use some help with a few things:
1. Validating the update to gcc 4.8.3. I tried to run the tests and got some failures, but I am not sure if they indicate problems with gcc or it's just noise. 2. Some general testing of the updated configure script. 3. Testing the build process on a 32-bit platform. 4. Setup of a local mirror of the distribution files on haskell.org. On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <[email protected] > wrote: > On 2014-10-13 at 10:57:10 +0200, Simon Peyton Jones wrote: > > I think the potential difficulty is (1). Maybe they take it down (e.g. > they move on to version X so they take down old version Y). > > > > An alternative would be to stash a copy somewhere on GHC’s main web > > server, and wget that. I’d be more comfortable doing that; less > > dependence on others. > > I guess storing a copy somewhere on https://ghc.haskell.org/ should be > ok (I'm hoping Austin may weigh in wrt CDN-related considerations). I'd > suggest using it as a fallback location though. I.e. try downloading > from the official upstream location, and if that fails (either due to > I/O errors and/or unexpected checksum), fallback to using our locally > mirrored copy. However, we may need to take into account license issues, > such as hosting the source-code as well, if we host binary distributions > depending on the licenses involved (I'm not sure if this was ever > considered for ghc-tarballs.git to begin with) > > Cheers, > hvr > -- Gintautas Miliauskas
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