ghc-7.6: weak symbols and ghci
Time to time internetz stumble upon a ghci bug which is seen as inability to load base haskell package: Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done....
View Article7.8.1-rc1 Gentoo experience
A week ago Austin Seipp and GHC team announced first release candidate from 7.8 branch. As a packager I was especially interested in following features: GHCi (and dynamic linking) on unregisterised...
View ArticleunsafePerformIO and missing NOINLINE
Two months ago Ivan asked me if we had working darcs-2.8 for ghc-7.8 in gentoo. We had a workaround to compile darcs to that day, but darcs did not work reliably. Sometimes it needed 2-3 attempts to...
View Articleghc 7.8.3 and rare architectures
After some initially positive experience with ghc-7.8-rc1 I’ve decided to upstream most of gentoo fixes. On rare arches ghc-7.8.3 behaves a bit bad: ia64 build stopped being able to link itself after...
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