- Use integer-gmp again.
- Cleanout the extracted bootstrap directory right after installing it
to save some disk space.
- Use ${MAKE_ENV} instead ${MODGHC_SETUP_CONF_ENV} in ghc.port.mk (in
do-configure, use both).
- Don't compile Setup.l?hs, just use the interpreter (runghc) in
ghc.port.mk. This speeds up the build of most ports depending on
ghc and using a cabal-style build.
Necessary bumps and WANTLIB changes in ports using ghc will follow
later this evening.
Since the new bootstrapper has a new name (ghc-6.12.2.20100530),
the ABI of some libraries included in GHC will change, possibly
breaking all other libraries, so expect some additional bumps soon.
Yes, this *is* ridiculous. If you want to live in peace, don't use
GHC.
paraemters to ghc-pkg. Remove the (now obsolete) patch for Register.hs.
Ports that build ghc libraries should now use the following
@exec/@unexec magic (('ve already diffs for all the hs-* ports in
my tree):
lib/${DISTNAME}/register.sh
@exec /usr/bin/env HOME=/nonexistent %D/lib/${DISTNAME}/register.sh -v0
@unexec /usr/bin/env HOME=/nonexistent %D/lib/${DISTNAME}/unregister.sh -v0 --force
lib/${DISTNAME}/unregister.sh
for unregister.sh in all the new ghc libraries (which leads to bogus
registered ghc packages after updates).
You can use the command
ghc-pkg check
to check ghcs internal package list. If it reports missing files
for some package (like hashed-storage-0.4.11), you can forcibly
unregister it by running (as root) something like
ghc-pkg unregister hashed-storage-0.4.11
ok dcoppa@
- obstack.h uses casts as lvalues, fix those
- hack standard includes to avoid tons of strlen/malloc warnings (may
even fix bootstrap on other things than i386)
- remove non-standard assert.h that requires an eprintf in libgcc.
- bump pkgname, just in case...
verified to work with both gcc3 and gcc4.
just setting MODGHC_SETUP_CONF_ARGS (which is now empty by default).
Add dblatex-created documentation.
While here, use our INSTALL* macros where possible to get correct
permissions (noticed by dcoppa@). This does *not* fix the permissions
of libraries and interface files installed by Cabal-based tools,
because the permissions are hard-coded in Cabal, and I'm not going
to touch and fix Cabal ever, because IMHO it's completely broken
by design. (If you want to read some of this madness, have a look
at libraries/Cabal/Distribution/Compat/CopyFile.hs or even
libraries/Cabal/Distribution/Simple/Install.hs)
Expect some breakage of depending ports (at least of devel/darcs) and
some necessary WANTLIB changes, which will be fixed soonish.
the APIs of GHCs libraries depend on the version of the bootstrapping
compiler (and probably on the output of pom(6) and the amount of
active vulcanos in iceland).
See http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4012#comment:3 for
details.
THIS ALSO MEANS THAT IF YOUR BUILD FAILS, YOU WILL HAVE TO MAKE
CLEAN AND START FROM SCRATCH! NEVER EVER TRY TO RESTART THE BUILD
OR THE LIBRARY ABIS WILL CHANGE! (Sorry for yelling)
Bump PKGNAME-main, since people may already have built ghc with
native_bootstrap.
Many thanks to Darrin Chandler and dcoppa@ for testing, reporting about
broken stuff, missing dependencies here and in ports depending on ghc.
Notes and rants:
- Bootstrapping is done using precompiled binaries, since .hc
bootstrapping still doesn't work. I really hate this.
THIS MEANS THAT GHC IS NOW AND WILL STAY LEGACY-ONLY (i386 and amd64)
At least until someone fixes it. I tried for more than two year
(well, only in my spare time and during my vacations) and failed.
- libgmp is currently disabled, because I didn't yet hack the GHC build
system to use the system libgmp instead of the patched one included
in GHC.
- The haddock ncluded in the ghc distfile is replaced by the version
of haddock found in devel/haddock. Haddock itself is @commented
in the ghc PLIST. Unfortunately, this needs an ugly hack that
introduces an otherwise useless pseudo flavor `no_deps' in
devel/haddock.
- CLDouble has been removed from GHC some time ago, because it was
an alias for double (AFAIK there's now support for long double
in GHC). As this isn't a really big problem, it currently breaks
c2hs, which I'll mark broken temporarily before committing the
ghc update.
- The external codeset defaults to latin1 (suggested by Simon Marlow)
and can be overridden by setting the HS_ENCODING to any codeset
supported by libiconv.
- ghc.port.mk still needs some love, especially for letting a port add
additional parameters to certain invocations of ${MODGHC_SETUP_PROG}.
