How are other distros/OS doing? Do we really need to bootstrap each
time? Could not the old working binary be saved to some kind of
semiofficial porttools.tgz used on the computer for building all the
ports? We would then have two flavors of GHC: The normal one installed
to /usr/local/ and one that would install to /usr/porttools/ from where
a porttool.tgz can be generated easily.
Would a porttools.tgz together with all the other base-tgz files be a
bad idea? Would it help any other port?
On 05/08/13 09:40, Matthias Kilian wrote:
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 08:00:42AM +0200, Dawe wrote:
To lower the impact of ghc we could remove all hs-ports that don't need patching
and work out of the box with cabal.
The biggest current problem is that there'll be a flag day when we
switch to 64 bit time_t. After this day, neiter an installed ghc
nor the ghc bootstrapping binaries will work any longer.
I've prepared a bootstrapping sequence starting with ghc-6.6
(bootstrapping from .hc files), going through several ghc versions
up to 7.4, but this still not working.
After all the years dealing with all this ghc bullshit (broken
bootstrapping, non-deterministic symbol names, incompatible changes
with every release) I'm seriously loosing interest.
Ciao,
Kili
