+++ peter green [2014-05-15 03:29 +0100]: > Wookey wrote: > >The debian-port arm64 rebootstrap is progressing nicely, and we just > >passed 4200 source packages built, with another few hundred > >pending. There are now 2 buildds running. > Cool, have you seen any news on when we might actually be able to > buy the stuff (which afaict is a prerequisite for getting into > Debian)
No-one tells me things like that... I expect stuff will be available by the end of this year, but for all I know someone is about to announce something next week. > >Anyone who is interested in doing this work, or just has some idea of > >how much work is involved, do please pipe up (I don't know if each of > >these is 6 months or 6 minutes). There is a porter box available. > Any further info on this? google, the debian machines database and > the arm64 wiki page don't seem to be turning anything up. It's not set up within the Debian infra yet - I need to find out what's needed for that (and get a tuit). For now it's just a box with manual setup; you just ask me to sort out an account. > >GHCi (ghc is done, but not ghci - is this hard?) > Note that 32-bit arm doesn't currently have ghci either. > > I don't do haskell but I have googled the issue with no ghci on arm > before and iirc it's a problem with their "runtime linker", there > was a suggestion of punting that functionality to llvm but I didn't > find any evidence of anything coming from it. > >Pascal > A google search turns up some github links to what appears to be an > attempt at a port but i've no idea if it's a usable port or not. > Might be worth following them up and finding out what the status is. OK, cheers for that. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
