Joachim Breitner wrote:
There was some support for ghci on arm, but it wasn’t working
well and disabled it in Debian in 7.6.3:
* Disable GHCi on arm, as it is severly borken (for more information see
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7794)
Maybe things have improved in 7.8 (currently in experimental). We could
use some manpower dedicated to testing this, hunting down upstream
patches and trying them out. Unfortunately, the current 7.8 package does
not even build on arm:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=ghc&suite=experimental
and every developer trying to fix it gave up, mostly because the long
build times make it so annoying.
Well it won't be me, I don't know haskell and I don't have the time/inclination to learn it.Maybe there are people out there in the Raspbian community who care for ghc (not just ghci!) on arm and would like to fix these problems before they migrate to Raspbian? You’d be welcome to join the Debian Haskell Group!
Sending this to debian-arm and raspbian-devel to see if anyone there can help out.