Good Morning All Thanks for the replies
@Karel After more testing it looks like i can remove the python business. @Sergei and @Karel libiconv is a prerequisite of ghc and is installed automatically, do you think this should be explicit? @Matthias I will have to have a read about branches and will update the wiki shortly. Cheers Adam On 6 April 2017 at 04:38, Matthias Kilian <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Adam, > > On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 03:39:18PM +0800, Adam Steen wrote: >> I have created the Building/Preparation/OpenBSD Wiki Page, i have not yet >> link it to Building/Preparation >> <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation> page yet, but >> am looking for a review >> >> Setting Up a OpenBSD System for Building GHC >> <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/OpenBSD> > > Nice to see that some people actively work on ghc on OpenBSD (and > apologies for me beeing such a slacker keeping the ghc package for > OpenBSD up to date). > > FWIW, you don't have to pass the very exact package name to pkg_add, > like 'autoconf-2.69p2' or ''automake-1.15p0'. There's a relatively new > concept in pkg_tools called 'branches' (see pkg_add(1) manpage). > > You just have to replace the '-' separating the stem and the version by > a '%', e.g. > > pkg_add autoconf%2.69 automake%1.15 > > Then you'll get autoconf-2.69 and aotmake-1.15 regardless of what's the > current REVISION (aka package patchleve) ot the package. > > Ciao, > Kili On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 4:38 AM, Matthias Kilian <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Adam, > > On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 03:39:18PM +0800, Adam Steen wrote: >> I have created the Building/Preparation/OpenBSD Wiki Page, i have not yet >> link it to Building/Preparation >> <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation> page yet, but >> am looking for a review >> >> Setting Up a OpenBSD System for Building GHC >> <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/OpenBSD> > > Nice to see that some people actively work on ghc on OpenBSD (and > apologies for me beeing such a slacker keeping the ghc package for > OpenBSD up to date). > > FWIW, you don't have to pass the very exact package name to pkg_add, > like 'autoconf-2.69p2' or ''automake-1.15p0'. There's a relatively new > concept in pkg_tools called 'branches' (see pkg_add(1) manpage). > > You just have to replace the '-' separating the stem and the version by > a '%', e.g. > > pkg_add autoconf%2.69 automake%1.15 > > Then you'll get autoconf-2.69 and aotmake-1.15 regardless of what's the > current REVISION (aka package patchleve) ot the package. > > Ciao, > Kili _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
