Hi Adam Steen, I just chatted with you on https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/416, I just added so more info for the wxallowed step to your wiki page -- hope you don't mind. I'm gonna post something to this mailing list in a minute about the trouble I've been having with building GHC on openBSD 6.0.
Thanks, Sean On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 8:04 PM, Adam Steen <a...@adamsteen.com.au> wrote: > Good Morning All > > Thanks for the replies > > @Karel > After more testing it looks like i can remove the python business. > > @Sergei and @Karel > libiconv is a prerequisite of ghc and is installed automatically, do > you think this should be explicit? > > @Matthias > I will have to have a read about branches and will update the wiki shortly. > > Cheers > Adam > > On 6 April 2017 at 04:38, Matthias Kilian <k...@outback.escape.de> wrote: > > Hi Adam, > > > > On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 03:39:18PM +0800, Adam Steen wrote: > >> I have created the Building/Preparation/OpenBSD Wiki Page, i have not > yet > >> link it to Building/Preparation > >> <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation> page yet, > but > >> am looking for a review > >> > >> Setting Up a OpenBSD System for Building GHC > >> <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/OpenBSD> > > > > Nice to see that some people actively work on ghc on OpenBSD (and > > apologies for me beeing such a slacker keeping the ghc package for > > OpenBSD up to date). > > > > FWIW, you don't have to pass the very exact package name to pkg_add, > > like 'autoconf-2.69p2' or ''automake-1.15p0'. There's a relatively new > > concept in pkg_tools called 'branches' (see pkg_add(1) manpage). > > > > You just have to replace the '-' separating the stem and the version by > > a '%', e.g. > > > > pkg_add autoconf%2.69 automake%1.15 > > > > Then you'll get autoconf-2.69 and aotmake-1.15 regardless of what's the > > current REVISION (aka package patchleve) ot the package. > > > > Ciao, > > Kili > > On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 4:38 AM, Matthias Kilian <k...@outback.escape.de> > wrote: > > Hi Adam, > > > > On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 03:39:18PM +0800, Adam Steen wrote: > >> I have created the Building/Preparation/OpenBSD Wiki Page, i have not > yet > >> link it to Building/Preparation > >> <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation> page yet, > but > >> am looking for a review > >> > >> Setting Up a OpenBSD System for Building GHC > >> <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/OpenBSD> > > > > Nice to see that some people actively work on ghc on OpenBSD (and > > apologies for me beeing such a slacker keeping the ghc package for > > OpenBSD up to date). > > > > FWIW, you don't have to pass the very exact package name to pkg_add, > > like 'autoconf-2.69p2' or ''automake-1.15p0'. There's a relatively new > > concept in pkg_tools called 'branches' (see pkg_add(1) manpage). > > > > You just have to replace the '-' separating the stem and the version by > > a '%', e.g. > > > > pkg_add autoconf%2.69 automake%1.15 > > > > Then you'll get autoconf-2.69 and aotmake-1.15 regardless of what's the > > current REVISION (aka package patchleve) ot the package. > > > > Ciao, > > Kili > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > -- Sean Westfall 2644 E. 4th St. Long Beach, CA 90802 ph: (808) 281-4695 em: sean.westf...@gmail.com
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