Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:12:10 -0400 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> To: L Campbell <llc2w@virginia.edu> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org> Subject: Re: ports/130218 Maintainer timeout? (lang/ghc update) Message-ID: <20090728131210.GB20289@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <792298050907272013h22427e07k47b26eb6b831362@mail.gmail.com> References: <792298050907121455k56209f95yf5a9c02b9c0f592d@mail.gmail.com> <20090713005043.GE55742@plebeian.afflictions.org> <792298050907121807h30dcb469hffc8ab8701e2f46e@mail.gmail.com> <20090728001233.GB49395@plebeian.afflictions.org> <792298050907272013h22427e07k47b26eb6b831362@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:13:21PM -0400, L Campbell wrote:
> Also sending to @ports because I kind of left the thread hanging.
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Damian Gerow<dgerow@afflictions.org> wrote:
> > Did you get any traction on your bump on a ghc update? ??I can't find your
> > message in my history, so it's likely I've auto-deleted it.
> >
>
> No, I got blown out of the water by a hardware failure -- currently
> running off an EEEPC with NetBSD until I can afford to buy a new
> machine.
>
> In a previous message I was able to update GHC to 6.10.2, but it
> failed a significant number of tests in GHC's regression test suite,
> and with that build something weird happens to ghci where it outputs
> control characters and backspaces as ^H. Probably not picking up
> libedit or something.
>
> With GHC 6.10.{3,4} they've moved off libedit, instead using a
> Haskell-based library, haskeline. When I tried to build it, the
> compilation always broke down about an hour in complaining that that
> library, Haskeline, was missing. I assume it has to be included in the
> bootstrap package (and currently isn't). I'm not quite sure how to go
> about fixing that.
>
> Anyway, I mailed out a Makefile patch for my 6.10.2 stuff (Mon, Jul
> 13, 2009 at 8:29 PM); I can pull it off my email and send it to you
> (or anyone else) off-list if you want.
>
> Sucks :(
There were a whole slew of PRs submitted very recently dealing with a
GHC update. I grabbed them all so that I can keep track of them. My plan
is to combine them all into one big patch to circulate to the haskell@
folks and work with them to address any issues in them and get them into
the tree.
I can't say it will get in before the freeze but I will do my best.
-- WXS
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