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[PATCH] WIP: Bootstrap GHC on ARM systems.

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Message #13 received at 42014 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Alex Griffin <a <at> ajgrf.com>
Cc: 42014 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#42014] [PATCH] WIP: gnu: Re-bootstrap Haskell with GHC 8.2.2
 binaries.
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2020 23:21:05 +0200

Alex Griffin via Guix-patches via <guix-patches <at> gnu.org> writes:

> This patch replaces the GHC 7.8.4 bootstrap binaries with binaries of
> GHC 8.2.2, with an eye towards supporting ARM systems. I have not yet
> succeeded in bootstrapping GHC on ARM, but 8.2.2 is the first release
> with official binary distributions for both armv7 and aarch64.

Can we do this only for armhf and aarch64?  I wouldn’t like to replace
the bootstrap binary for the other architectures with a newer version
without a good reason.  (We should aim to remove the binary completely,
not replace it with newer and newer versions.)

-- 
Ricardo

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