Subject: Re: [bug#36692] [PATCH (unified, replaces previous patches)] gnu: Add GHC 8.6.5

From: Timothy Sample <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 00:26:39 -0400

Hi Robert,

Robert Vollmert <[email-masked]> writes:

> This is exactly like GHC 8.4, except for:
> - the sources
> - depends on ghc-8.4 as ghc-bootstrap, since it has a
>   minimum requirement of GHC 8.2 as a bootstrap compiler
> - explicitly skip two failing tests

I simplified the package by reusing the inputs and arguments from
“ghc-8.4”.  I also made changing “ghc-8” its own commit.

Pushed as a62ddb748f–cce84c34cd.  Thanks!

> (Apparently, those tests also fail on older versions, but
> for unclear reasons the packages still build successfully.)

It would be nice if we could make the old versions fail and fix or
disable the failing tests.

-- Tim