Hi Sean The more people using OpenBSD and GHC the better, please add as much information as you think necessary.
Cheers Adam On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Sean Westfall <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Adam Steen, > I just chatted with you on > https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/416, I just added so more > info for the wxallowed step to your wiki page -- hope you don't mind. I'm > gonna post something to this mailing list in a minute about the trouble I've > been having with building GHC on openBSD 6.0. > > Thanks, > Sean > > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 8:04 PM, Adam Steen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 > > > > > -- > > Sean Westfall > 2644 E. 4th St. > Long Beach, CA 90802 > ph: (808) 281-4695 > em: [email protected] _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
