From owner-freebsd-haskell@freebsd.org Sun Jun 3 18:07:46 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-haskell@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EBDFFE75DF for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2018 18:07:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF8B726C7 for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2018 18:07:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 9CD6CFE75D2; Sun, 3 Jun 2018 18:07:45 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: haskell@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 890A0FE75D0 for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2018 18:07:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from mxrelay.ysv.freebsd.org (mxrelay.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mxrelay.ysv.freebsd.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 22551726C1 for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2018 18:07:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from kenobi.freebsd.org (kenobi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::16:76]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mxrelay.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46C4D2B477 for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2018 18:07:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from kenobi.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.118]) by kenobi.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id w53I7iwN040458 for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2018 18:07:44 GMT (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: (from www@localhost) by kenobi.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id w53I7i7a040451 for haskell@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 3 Jun 2018 18:07:44 GMT (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) X-Authentication-Warning: kenobi.freebsd.org: www set sender to bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org using -f Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: haskell@FreeBSD.org Subject: maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 228727] lang/ghc cannot be used as a bootstrap compiler Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2018 18:07:44 +0000 X-Bugzilla-Type: request X-Bugzilla-Product: Ports & Packages X-Bugzilla-Component: Individual Port(s) X-Bugzilla-Version: Latest X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: Affects Many People X-Bugzilla-Who: X-Bugzilla-Status: New X-Bugzilla-Resolution: X-Bugzilla-Priority: --- X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: haskell@FreeBSD.org X-Bugzilla-Flags: maintainer-feedback? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Bugzilla-URL: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-haskell@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD-specific Haskell issues and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2018 18:07:46 -0000 Bugzilla Automation has asked freebsd-haskell mailing list for maintainer-feedback: Bug 228727: lang/ghc cannot be used as a bootstrap compiler https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D228727 --- Description --- The package for ghc version 8.4.2 has been built with dtrace support, sadly this results in a GHC that cannot be used to bootstrap another compiler. For that reason 8.4.2 should be build with the `--disable-dtrace` configure flag which was introduced as a workaround in 8.4.2. (see https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15040). I currently have a patch in review that hopefully fixes this issue altogeth= er.