[discuss] GHC 8.8.2 + cabal-install 3.0.0 finally working on SmartOS x64 20200117 (yet GHC 8.6.5 left less usable)

2020-02-10 Thread Compl Yue via illumos-discuss
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

[discuss] GHC 8.6.5 now works on SmartOS - Was: GHC 8.8.2 + cabal-install 3.0.0 finally working on SmartOS x64 20200117 (yet GHC 8.6.5 left less usable)

2020-02-13 Thread Compl Yue via illumos-discuss
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 g

[discuss] Re: [smartos-discuss] GHC 8.8.2 + cabal-install 3.0.0 finally working on SmartOS x64 20200117 (yet GHC 8.6.5 left less usable)

2020-02-18 Thread Compl Yue via illumos-discuss
Great! And I suggest add 8.6.5 to the list, as I feel it may have wider adoption than other versions as time being, and fortunately the previous ghci problem with it has been fixed by backporting merge request 87, my repository has updated the build steps and the backporting patch. FYI. On 2