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Re: Would you consider updating the ghc package to version 9 for Bookworm (testing) Debian?



Quoting Clint Adams (2022-01-20 15:58:51)
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 02:42:13PM +0100, Marek Ľach wrote:
> > I would like to ask if there're any foreseeable plans to possibly update the ghc to at least version 9.0.2 <https://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_9_0_2.html> for the testing Bookworm distribution?
> 
> My information may be out of date, but I believe that the
> current blocker for GHC updates is a build failure on
> mipsel:
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=ghc&suite=experimental

Not sure, but looks like the error is this:

Warning: Coercion: could not fhaddock: out of memory (requested 1048576 bytes)
make[3]: *** [compiler/ghc.mk:310: compiler/stage2/doc/html/ghc/ghc.haddock] Error 251

I.e. that something runs out of memory.

That experimental build is for GHC 8.10.7.

I notice at 
https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/9.0.2/docs/html/users_guide/9.0.2-notes.html 
that one of the highlights is "Improved compiler performance and memory 
usage" which sounds promising (but possibly is only compared to 9.0.1, 
not compared to 8.x).

Perhaps someone familiar with GHC could try an experimental build of 
9.0.2?


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