Bug#783987: ghc: ghci on arm64

2015-05-03 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
great! Can you provide me the precise patches/files that you were using, or simple the complete source, so I can upload them to unstable? Here's a simplified patch based on the following two commits: https://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commit/0bbc2ac6dae9ce2838f23a75a6a989826c06f3f5

Bug#783987: ghc: ghci on arm64

2015-05-03 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 02.05.2015, 09:28 +0100 schrieb Edmund Grimley Evans: I wasn't really expecting anything good to come out of such a simple-minded change, but in fact the patched 7.8.4-3 successfully built an arm64 deb, which includes a ghci, which appears to work, at least to the extent

Bug#783987: ghc: ghci on arm64

2015-05-02 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
I noticed that there were a couple of aarch64-related commits on Apr 20/21: https://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commit/0bbc2ac6dae9ce2838f23a75a6a989826c06f3f5 https://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commit/1e8c9b81a819da8eb54405a029fc33a9f5220321 I wondered what would happen if I applied them on top of

Bug#783987: ghc: ghci on arm64

2015-05-01 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
Source: ghc Version: 7.8.4-3 Severity: wishlist There's been some recent talk of enabling ghci on arm64: https://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commit/1e8c9b81a819da8eb54405a029fc33a9f5220321 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203951 Is there any chance of ghci on arm64 coming to Debian?