Re: Bootstrapping alex
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 09:34:10PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 30.08.2014, 19:40 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson:
> > Folks on #debian-buildd are rediscovering some of the difficulties at
> > the tail end of the ghc bootstrap process for arm64 and ppc64el that I
> > discovered when doing this for Ubuntu a few months back. I filed
> > https://github.com/simonmar/happy/issues/29 to see if happy can be
> > improved, but for alex, what do people think of this approach to
> > eliminate its build-dependency loop? I've test-built it and it works
> > fine, but it does introduce the new constraint described in the
> > changelog.
>
> Well, people keep telling me that I should build from source at build
> time, hence we do not use the upsteam-generated files, and expect
> porters to manually undo that for the first upload (i.e. do not clean
> dist/ but rather use the files there). Once we have build-profiles I’m
> happy (heh) to automate that.
Now that we have build profiles, I've implemented and tested stage1
build profile support for all of happy, alex, and uuagc, and uploaded
all those to unstable since the current ghc transition is out of the
way. This should help out porters a little bit without inconveniencing
normal development.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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