Re: haskell 7 world -> moving to 8!

2019-09-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 at 04:02, Ken Cunningham wrote: > On 2019-09-12, at 7:51 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > > > Cool! > > Doesn't it work if you simply use this working ghc-bootstrap to build version > 8? > Or is Haskell too picky about what version of compiler you require to > build something

Re: haskell 7 world -> moving to 8!

2019-09-12 Thread Fred Wright
On Thu, 12 Sep 2019, Ken Cunningham wrote: On 2019-09-12, at 7:02 PM, Ken Cunningham wrote: ghc is only C code. Well, C code + haskell of course. Not c++ . It's primarily the c++ exception handling Darwin ABI issue with PPC llvm that limits releasing clang-5+ for PPC to the wild. At

Re: MacPorts 2.6.0-beta1 now available for testing

2019-09-12 Thread Joshua Root
Looks pretty good so far, so I'll plan to tag a release candidate on the weekend and, if all goes well, a final release a few days after that. - Josh

Re: haskell 7 world -> moving to 8!

2019-09-12 Thread Ken Cunningham
On 2019-09-12, at 7:02 PM, Ken Cunningham wrote: > ghc is only C code. Well, C code + haskell of course. Not c++ . It's primarily the c++ exception handling Darwin ABI issue with PPC llvm that limits releasing clang-5+ for PPC to the wild. Ken

Re: haskell 7 world -> moving to 8!

2019-09-12 Thread Ken Cunningham
On 2019-09-12, at 7:51 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > > Cool! > > Doesn't it work if you simply use this working ghc-bootstrap to build version > 8? > Or is Haskell too picky about what version of compiler you require to > build something newer, and you can only go forward one tiny step at a >

Re: latex is driving me batty -- ! Package fontspec Error: The font "DejaVu Sans" cannot be found.

2019-09-12 Thread Ken Cunningham
Ah, I see this in the current `ghc` portfile. No doubt the solution: # fix DejaVu texlive fonts names, e.g. "\setmonofont{DejaVu Sans Mono}" foreach f "\ ${srcpath}/${distname}/libraries/Cabal/Cabal/doc/conf.py \ ${srcpath}/${distname}/docs/users_guide/conf.py \ " { reinplace -E

latex is driving me batty -- ! Package fontspec Error: The font "DejaVu Sans" cannot be found.

2019-09-12 Thread Ken Cunningham
I'm working on making a newer bootstrap version of ghc for SnowLeopard. The ghc 8.0.1 build finishes on 10.6.8, but it wants to build the PDF documentation next, and texlive is erroring building the PDF. I know nothing about texlive. I know I might turn off the docs, but -- it took many hours

Re: haskell 7 world

2019-09-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 at 05:26, Ken Cunningham wrote: > > For users of the systems that can't run the current haskell 8.x software (at > present at least) I extracted what i believe is the bulk of the haskell 7.x > world and have it as a portfile overlay. > > It seems to work. pandoc installs and

scope of configure.optflags, configure.compiler etc. command line variables

2019-09-12 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Hi, I hope I didn't ask this before: Is there a way to let command line options like the ones in the subject apply to all ports on the command line, instead of only to the one given just before of the option in question? Thanks, R.