Re: Legacy Support for GHC-Based Projects

2023-01-17 Thread Sergio Had
I assume stack-based builds are still broken for PPC, as well as Intel builds on 10.6.8, but I will try to find time to work on fixing it. Ken kindly shared his work on GHC for Snow Leopard, but it is for x86 (and not in Macports). If anyone is good at cross-compiling, please ping me. We need

Re: Legacy Support for GHC-Based Projects

2023-01-17 Thread Sergio Had
If PPC is fixed on our end, I will try to upstream patches, so we won’t need to carry those. On Jan 17, 2023 21:47 +0800, Steven Smith , wrote: > To clarify, the question is how to specify that these ports use the latest > stack version for builds on legacy systems. Does it work for pandoc now?

Re: Legacy Support for GHC-Based Projects

2023-01-17 Thread Steven Smith
To clarify, the question is how to specify that these ports use the latest stack version for builds on legacy systems. Does it work for pandoc now?stack on ppc or other very old non-supported systems will be extraordinarily fragile and time-consuming, and I expect difficult to anticipate sustained

Re: Legacy Support for GHC-Based Projects

2023-01-17 Thread Steven Smith
A stack binary is required to build stack, and to the best of my knowledge there is no ppc stack binary: https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/search?q=ppc=. I recommend such requests be taken upstream, as there is no “fix” for PPC on our end.Back to topic, is anyone able to confirm that