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 ghc-devs
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

Re: 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)

2020-02-14 Thread Ben Gamari
Compl Yue via ghc-devs writes: > 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! > Great work figuring out the issue! Thanks for your work

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)

2020-02-12 Thread Compl Yue via ghc-devs
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

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 ghc-devs
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

Re: GHC with cabal-install

2015-02-26 Thread 山本和彦
Hi Jack, I can't provide any guidance on what GHC might do, but I can from what other distributions have done. On both my Debian and Gentoo systems, there is a cabal-install package that is as easy to install as ghc. Perhaps CentOS could provide a similar package. I see that Fedora has a

Re: GHC with cabal-install

2015-02-26 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Kazu Yamamoto k...@iij.ad.jp wrote: Anyway, I would like to know reasons why the GHC binary package does not provide the cabal command. Too many additional dependencies. Note that https://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html *does* provide binary packages,

Re: GHC with cabal-install

2015-02-26 Thread 山本和彦
Hi Brandon, Too many additional dependencies. OK. Note that https://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html *does* provide binary packages, specifically to address this. Oh. I did not know this page. Excellent. Thanks! --Kazu ___ ghc-devs mailing

GHC 7.10.1 / cabal-install 1.22 Ubuntu-PPA pre-RC snapshots available!

2014-12-23 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
To early adopters multi-ghc-travis users, I've uploaded pre-RC snapshots for GHC 7.10.1 and cabal-install 1.22 to my GHC PPA[1], so you can start extending your .travis.yml files w/ CABALVER=1.22 GHCVER=7.10.1 There are no official RCs yet for GHC 7.10/cabal-install 1.22, these are merely