On 2008-12-10, Matthias Kilian <k...@outback.escape.de> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 11:48:06PM -0600, Jeff Wheeler wrote: >> >Kili discussed this: >> >http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=122056776110888&w=2 >> >> Thanks, I appreciate the link, although I'm somewhat disappointed with >> the contents. >> >> I'm a newbie, and OpenBSD seems like a great OS, but I've been scared >> off a bit by the harsh tone in a lot of messages, including the linked >> one [...] > > I just described the procedure of building a recent GHC, the problems > you'll run into when working on the port, and some of of the general > problems with GHC that caused lots of trouble in the past. > > Some of my mails on the Haskell mailing lists were much more harsh, > yet Simon Peyton-Jones told me that I was probably too quite and > polite in the past ;-) > >> Anyways, thanks for the help! I'll try to play with a FreeBSD/NetBSD- >> esque solution on my local machine, despite ugliness. > > We probably will do something similar for OpenBSD, but a little bit > cleaner and only until ghc-6.12 will be released (probably autumn > 2009): I've prepared a "minimalistic" port based on ghc-6.6, that > will be used for building ghc-6.10. Jona Joachim sent me his work > on ghc-6.10 built with the mini-ghc-6.6, and I really hope to look > at it soon (sorry for having nearly no spare time recently). It > should be possible to get a working ghc-6.10 for OpenBSD within > this month, but still only for i386 and amd64. But then there may > still be ports that just don't compile with ghc-6.10 -- Jona mentioned > problems with xmonad, and IIRC the developers of darcs had some > trouble getting darcs built with ghc-6.10 (this may be fixed now).
Yes, xmonad 0.8 does not compile with ghc-6.10, you have to use the darcs version of xmonad. I haven't tried to compile darcs with 6.10 yet. If somebody wants to take a look or test, here is a work in progress port for ghc and a proof of concept port for xmonad: http://www.hcl-club.lu/~jaj/stuff/obsd_ports/ It should work on i386 and amd64. It's not ready for prime time but I don't have any spare time either ATM. Best regards, Jona
