Re: GHC haskell support for arm64 and ppc64el

2014-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 05:04:18PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: At this point there is a pretty good chance that I'll be able to get arm64 GHC bootstrapped in the archive in time for 14.04. $ rmadison -s trusty ghc ghc | 7.6.3-9 | trusty/universe | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc

Re: GHC haskell support for arm64 and ppc64el

2014-03-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:34:04AM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: Seems that fedora is bootstrapping ghc for ppc64 http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/ghc.git/log/?h=epel7 Revert bootstrap from ghc-7.4.2-11.2.fc19 x86_64 and ppc64epel7 use cpio --make-directories install

Re: GHC haskell support for arm64 and ppc64el

2014-03-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 05:18:16PM +, Colin Watson wrote: The best information I can find is in https://ghcarm.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/unregisterised-ghc-head-build-for-arm64-platform/, which does suggest that there might be some hope, but it's not at all clear whether GHC will get beyond

Re: GHC haskell support for arm64 and ppc64el

2014-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 01:24:43PM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: I write here to ask if is it possible to have haskell also in arm64 and ppc64el the new 7.6.3-8 release should fix a random build failure on 64 bit architectures that was preventing ghc to build on s390x and similar.

Re: GHC haskell support for arm64 and ppc64el

2014-03-05 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Il Mercoledì 5 Marzo 2014 17:47, Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com ha scritto: On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 01:24:43PM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: I write here to ask if is it possible to have haskell also in arm64 and ppc64el the new 7.6.3-8 release should fix a random build failure on

Re: GHC haskell support for arm64 and ppc64el

2014-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 04:55:08PM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: Il Mercoledì 5 Marzo 2014 17:47, Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com ha scritto: I spent considerable time a while back trying to bootstrap ghc on ppc64el and I'm afraid I got nowhere.  Realistically, in the absence of a