Monday, March 09, 2020

Re: lang/ghc fixups

Hi Greg,

On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 10:25:15PM -0700, Greg Steuck wrote:
> I made a couple of simplifications that pass lang/ghc build and the
> resulting ghc package works for building a subset of Haskell packages (e.g.
> xmonad, xmobar). I only tested on amd64.
>
> * Remove unneeded patch-libffi_ghc_mk
> * Use ghc 8.6 for bootstrap, cut gcc dependency

Really cool, thanks!

I'll check this against all hs-ports on amd64 and a build of ghc and
some hs-ports on i386 before committing this. (May take a day or
two, because I'm still waiting for my poppler test builds).

Ciao,
Kili

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