Hi Matthias,
In my attempts to port ghc 8.10.2 I didn't figure out how to avoid
requiring threaded rts for ghc bootstrap. I propose we change the
bootstrap ghc 8.6.4 to include libHSrts_thr.a. So far I confirmed that
applying the patch below makes libHSrts_thr.a appear in the generated
*xz file which is then good enough to bootstrap 8.6.4. I will verify
that I can successfully bootstrap ghc-8.10.2.
I don't have a full update yet because I've never updated the bootstrap
before. Matthias, do you think you can rebuild and host the new
bootstrap packages starting from this change?
Thanks
Greg
diff --git a/lang/ghc/Makefile b/lang/ghc/Makefile
index 0168e13fe4c..f5f5c53c5ae 100644
--- a/lang/ghc/Makefile
+++ b/lang/ghc/Makefile
@@ -217,9 +217,9 @@ _bootstrap_prepare:
echo GhcStage2HcOpts=-O -fasm >> ${WRKSRC}/mk/build.mk
echo SplitObjs=NO >> ${WRKSRC}/mk/build.mk
echo GhcLibWays=v >> ${WRKSRC}/mk/build.mk
- echo GhcRTSWays= >> ${WRKSRC}/mk/build.mk
+ echo GhcRTSWays=thr >> ${WRKSRC}/mk/build.mk
echo GhcWithInterpreter=NO >> ${WRKSRC}/mk/build.mk
- echo GhcThreaded=NO >> ${WRKSRC}/mk/build.mk
+ echo GhcThreaded=YES >> ${WRKSRC}/mk/build.mk
echo INTEGER_LIBRARY=integer-simple >> ${WRKSRC}/mk/build.mk
echo SRC_CC_OPTS+=-g -O0 >> ${WRKSRC}/mk/build.mk
echo HADDOCK_DOCS=NO >> ${WRKSRC}/mk/build.mk
