Bug#946102: ghc: Please add unregisterised binary package
Control: tags -1 wontfix Control: notfound -1 8.8.1+dfsg2-1~exp1 Hi Asher, On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 03:36PM, Asher Gordon wrote: > The GHC packaged with Debian is registerised (or "not unregisterised"?), > meaning that it cannot compile to C code (with the -C option). While > being unregisterised is usually good (generates faster code), it is > sometimes useful to generate C code. For example, to examine how Haskell > programs work if you know C but are learning Haskell (my situation) or > if you just want to understand Haskell better. It could also be useful > for cross compilation and maybe other things too. We don't really have a use for unregisterised GHC in Debian, to justify the effort. If you need an unregisterised GHC, I believe the easiest way to get one is to build your own, by modifying the Debian package and passing '--enable-unregisterised' during configuration. Best, -- Ilias
Bug#946102: ghc: Please add unregisterised binary package
Package: ghc Version: 8.8.1+dfsg2-1~exp1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, The GHC packaged with Debian is registerised (or "not unregisterised"?), meaning that it cannot compile to C code (with the -C option). While being unregisterised is usually good (generates faster code), it is sometimes useful to generate C code. For example, to examine how Haskell programs work if you know C but are learning Haskell (my situation) or if you just want to understand Haskell better. It could also be useful for cross compilation and maybe other things too. My suggestion is to build a new binary package (from the same source package) called "ghc-unregisterised". Then you could have "/usr/bin/ghc-unregisterised" so as not to conflict with the regular ghc package. Maybe even use update-alternatives. You would also have to rename "/usr/lib/ghc" to "/usr/lib/ghc-unregisterised". Thanks, Asher -- Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain GPG fingerprint: 38F3 975C D173 4037 B397 8095 D4C9 C4FC 5460 8E68 -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages ghc depends on: ii dpkg 1.19.7 ii gcc 4:9.2.1-3.1 ii libbsd-dev0.10.0-1 ii libc6 2.29-3 ii libc6-dev 2.29-3 ii libffi-dev3.2.1-9 ii libffi6 3.2.1-9 ii libgmp-dev2:6.1.2+dfsg-4 ii libgmp10 2:6.1.2+dfsg-4 ii libncurses-dev [libncurses5-dev] 6.1+20191019-1 ii libncurses5-dev 6.1+20191019-1 ii libtinfo6 6.1+20191019-1 ghc recommends no packages. Versions of packages ghc suggests: it ghc-doc 8.8.1+dfsg1+is+8.6.5+dfsg1-2 pn ghc-prof ii haskell-doc 20061128 ii llvm-7 1:7.0.1-9+b2 ii perl 5.30.0-9 -- no debconf information signature.asc Description: PGP signature
