> The ghc package has been commited to the netbsd cvs repository
> and is now available in pkgsrc as lang/ghc.
>         
>         ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/lang/ghc

Great stuff!  I'll put a note on the GHC web pages.

> Yes, I did, however it's done in a way that is somewhat 
> dependent on pkg magic,
> i.e:

Ok.  I assume this patch is part of the NetBSD port?  Long term, I'd like to
get this fixed properly so we can do a clean build on a NetBSD system.

Is NetBSD moving to ELF permanently?

> Here's the pkg Makefile (with a few targets removed) that defines
> HASKELL_OBJ_FMT. the nature of the ghc.lprl hackage is
> self-evident. It would be nice to be able to pass the default ghc
> compiler link paths in via configure.

Good point.  I'll take a look at this.

Cheers,
        Simon 

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