Re: Accepted ghc 7.8.20140710-1 (source all amd64)
So there is a real hope to see 7.8 in jessie and with arm* support?
that will be AWESOME! thanks a ton to you all for your work!
cheers,
Gianfranco
> Il Martedì 15 Luglio 2014 16:12, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> ha scritto:
> > Joey Hess wrote:
>> I am trying the gold bootstrapping script on abel now.
>> I suppose it will take a while.
>
> That script successfully built the stage2 compiler, and only eventually failed
> building haddock:
>
> /home/joeyh/tmp/ghc-7.8.3/compiler/stage2/build/libHSghc-7.8.3-ghc7.8.3.so:
> error: undefined reference to 'arm_atomic_spin_lock'
> /home/joeyh/tmp/ghc-7.8.3/compiler/stage2/build/libHSghc-7.8.3-ghc7.8.3.so:
> error: undefined reference to 'arm_atomic_spin_unlock'
>
> Those are guarded by a defined(arm_HOST_ARCH_PRE_ARMv6) so it should
> be easy to fix.
>
> Despite this failure, ghc seems to basically work. It can build hello world.
>
> More impressively, ghci really works! So TH should work too.. On arm!
>
> (sid_armel-dchroot)joeyh@abel:~/tmp/ghc-7.8.3$ inplace/bin/ghc-stage2
> --interactive
> GHCi, version 7.8.3: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help
> Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
> Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done.
> Loading package base ... linking ... done.
> Prelude> :m Data.List
> Prelude Data.List> sort "joey"
> "ejoy"
> Prelude> data Type a = Nothing
> Prelude> :i Type
> type role Type phantom
> data Type a = Nothing
> -- Defined at <interactive>:2:1
>
> So looks like https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7794 is really fixed too.
>
> Now I'm trying to use this compiler to build the ghc package.
>
>
> --
> see shy jo
>
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