I verified that the problem in GHC 8.6.5 can be solved by backporting
merge request 87, a patch as well as the build steps have been updated
at https://gitlab.haskell.org/complyue/smart-ghc8, enjoy!
On 2020/2/10 下午4:25, Compl Yue via ghc-devs wrote:
Folks,
I'm glad to report that I finally get GHC 8.8.2 with cabal-install
3.0.0.0 working on SmartOS x64, you can checkout detailed steps and
all the patches applied at https://gitlab.haskell.org/complyue/smart-ghc8
The only pity so far, is that the built GHC 8.6.5 has its `ghci` not
working with a strange iconv error, and failing building one of my
Haskell applications. I myself am going to use 8.8.2 where possible
from now on. But given not all great libs have been updated being 8.8
compatible, I feel it still worth some further effort to get 8.6.5
working.
And regarding stack, as it's focused on managing binary distributions
of GHC (build-from-src not working very well per my experience), it'll
need a trusted binary repository for stack to work with on SmartOS. A
private http server hosting the bindists should be straight forward,
but I'm not interested to host a publicly available binary repository
with those bindist tarballs digitally signed (or there're security
concerns). If anyone is interested, I'd like to help as far as I can.
I would particular like to see Nix be ported to
SmartOS/Illumos/Solaris, so I could contribute to nixpkgs instead,
which should save more asses in tool dependency resolution, but seems
that's not an option in near future.
I'm thankful to folks at #ghc and #smartos who helped me so much in
this journey. Especially bgamari, without his hints and bleeding edge
patches this won't be possible at all. And thanks to geekosaur for his
professional insights into the linker situation on SmartOS, quick and
precise identification of the problem from the error messages so
confusing to me.
https://www.mail-archive.com/smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org/msg05016.html
provided the information to get me started at all, and thanks to
Jonathan Perkin for confirming the bootstrapping path being a viable
route in the first place.
Cheers,
Compl Yue
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