- 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.
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}.
