kili: > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 03:03:39PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote: > > > I've to admit that the ghc port for OpenBSD is a little bit weird ;-) > > > > > > (but not as weird as my current work on ghc-6.8 for OpenBSD) > > > > What's your plan for the OpenBSD port, Kili? > > * Proper bootstrapping from .hc files. > > * Think about a better way to build the libraries; I understand why the > GHC developers do it using the makefiles generated by Cabal, but I'd > really prefer something less intrusive (i.e. let Cabal generate only > some makefile snippets with dependencies, special flags etc. and > include those snippets from a "classical" Makefile that fits better > into the good old fptools framework). > > * Port it to more archs (arm, powerpc, maybe alpha and vax, and, if I'll > ever be at that point, to everything else, at least unregisterised).
The debian port is inspiring in this regard. E.g. xmonad is available for: alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, s390, sparc http://packages.debian.org/sid/xmonad > * Omit as many core libraries as possible from the build, and make > separate ports for them. So in 6.8.2 only those actually required to build ghc should be in the core. > * Improve ghc.port.mk to make ports of "standard" stuff on hackage > more simple. Currently all GHC-depending ports are a real mess, for > example xmonad: > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/x11/xmonad/ > With the new ghc.port.mk, all the do-something targets will vanish, > and the xmonad Makefile will just contain a line like > > MODGHC_BUILD= cabal hackage haddock register > > which means: use Cabal (Setup.hs or Setup.lhs), fetch sources > from hackage, use haddock to build the documentation, create > register/unregister scripts that update package.conf on > installation/deinstallation. yeah, a tool to spit out Makefile defs from .cabal files to automate the process of getting the 500 things on hackage into the ports tree would be ideal. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe