Hi,
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:41:26PM +0100, Karel Gardas wrote:
> GHC 8.0.1 RC1 is announced here:
> https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2016-January/010966.html
>
> what may be interesting for OpenBSD/GHC users is that this release/rc1
> supports shared libraries and position independent executables. To
> build you need to have ghc, alex, happy, libffi, libiconv, gmp and
> gmake installed from ports, configure with:
>
> ./configure --with-gmp-includes=/usr/local/include/
> --with-gmp-libraries=/usr/local/lib
> --with-iconv-includes=/usr/local/include/
> --with-iconv-libraries=/usr/local/lib --with-system-libffi
> --with-ffi-includes=/usr/local/include/
> --with-ffi-libraries=/usr/local/lib
>
> and build with gmake.
[...]
Awesome. This works without any patches?
I hope the final release will contain the files generated by alex
and happy (for obvious reasons). Otherwise I'll have to generate
them myself and provide them in SUPDISTFILES of fhe ghc port.
Anyway, thanks for your work on upstream ghc.
Ciao,
Kili
