From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 28 13:12:11 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB2A5106566C for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:12:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wxs@atarininja.org) Received: from syn.atarininja.org (syn.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C2F8FC16 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:12:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wxs@atarininja.org) Received: by syn.atarininja.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E387E5C39; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:12:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:12:10 -0400 From: Wesley Shields To: L Campbell Message-ID: <20090728131210.GB20289@atarininja.org> References: <792298050907121455k56209f95yf5a9c02b9c0f592d@mail.gmail.com> <20090713005043.GE55742@plebeian.afflictions.org> <792298050907121807h30dcb469hffc8ab8701e2f46e@mail.gmail.com> <20090728001233.GB49395@plebeian.afflictions.org> <792298050907272013h22427e07k47b26eb6b831362@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <792298050907272013h22427e07k47b26eb6b831362@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Damian Gerow Subject: Re: ports/130218 Maintainer timeout? (lang/ghc update) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:12:12 -0000 On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:13:21PM -0400, L Campbell wrote: > Also sending to @ports because I kind of left the thread hanging. > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Damian Gerow wrote: > > Did you get any traction on your bump on a ghc update? ??I can't find your > > message in my history, so it's likely I've auto-deleted it. > > > > No, I got blown out of the water by a hardware failure -- currently > running off an EEEPC with NetBSD until I can afford to buy a new > machine. > > In a previous message I was able to update GHC to 6.10.2, but it > failed a significant number of tests in GHC's regression test suite, > and with that build something weird happens to ghci where it outputs > control characters and backspaces as ^H. Probably not picking up > libedit or something. > > With GHC 6.10.{3,4} they've moved off libedit, instead using a > Haskell-based library, haskeline. When I tried to build it, the > compilation always broke down about an hour in complaining that that > library, Haskeline, was missing. I assume it has to be included in the > bootstrap package (and currently isn't). I'm not quite sure how to go > about fixing that. > > Anyway, I mailed out a Makefile patch for my 6.10.2 stuff (Mon, Jul > 13, 2009 at 8:29 PM); I can pull it off my email and send it to you > (or anyone else) off-list if you want. > > Sucks :( There were a whole slew of PRs submitted very recently dealing with a GHC update. I grabbed them all so that I can keep track of them. My plan is to combine them all into one big patch to circulate to the haskell@ folks and work with them to address any issues in them and get them into the tree. I can't say it will get in before the freeze but I will do my best. -- WXS