Nikita Karetnikov <[email protected]> skribis: > I’ve been thinking about GHC recently. (A quick reminder: there are > binary versions [1], but we can’t use them because some binaries point > to ‘/bin/sh’.) I believe the following should work for x86_64 and i686:
I don’t know GHC, but apparently it can be bootstrapped from intermediate generated C files: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.4.1/html/building/sec-porting-ghc.html Wouldn’t that be better than fiddling with binaries out-of-band? > Questions: > > 1. We’d have to host the binaries (step 2) somewhere and repeat the > process whenever the hash of ‘/bin/sh’ changes. How often will this > happen? The hash of /bin/sh? Where did you see /bin/sh? :-) > 2. Does Guix allow to fetch files from multiple places? Is it possible > to use ‘url-fetch’ plus a local file? Could you show an example? The ‘uri’ argument can be a list: (origin (method url-fetch) (uri (list "http://..."; "file://...")) (sha256 ...)) However, ‘url-fetch’ doesn’t support file://. The other option would be to allow ‘source’ to be a list; that’s easily implemented, just not done yet. HTH, Ludo’.
