Hello Joachim, At Imagination Technologies (http://imgtec.com/) Dejan Latinovic has found a solution to Debian bug #751479.
https://bugs.debian.org/751479 My NMU debdiff for ghc_7.8.20140710-2.1 is below, at the end of this message. With the changes in the NMU debdiff, ghc builds successfully on mips, mipsel and amd64. Regards, Aníbal -- Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <anibal.monsalvesala...@imgtec.com> debdiff ghc_7.8.20140710-2.dsc ghc_7.8.20140710-2.1.dsc diff -Nru ghc-7.8.20140710/debian/changelog ghc-7.8.20140710/debian/changelog --- ghc-7.8.20140710/debian/changelog 2014-07-13 16:49:18.000000000 +0100 +++ ghc-7.8.20140710/debian/changelog 2014-07-15 09:49:36.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +ghc (7.8.20140710-2.1) experimental; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Add support for mips and mipsel. + Add mips-support.patch. + Patch by Dejan Latinovic <dejan.latino...@imgtec.com>. + Closes: #751479. + + -- Anibal Monsalve Salazar <ani...@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jul 2014 09:49:29 +0100 + ghc (7.8.20140710-2) experimental; urgency=medium * Also ship terminfo, haskeline, and xhtml. Thanks to David Fox for the diff -Nru ghc-7.8.20140710/debian/patches/mips-support.patch ghc-7.8.20140710/debian/patches/mips-support.patch --- ghc-7.8.20140710/debian/patches/mips-support.patch 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ ghc-7.8.20140710/debian/patches/mips-support.patch 2014-07-15 09:40:09.000000000 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +From: Dejan Latinovic <dejan.latino...@imgtec.com> +Subject: ghc 7.8.2 FTBFS for mips/mipsel +Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:42:27 +0000 + +https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=751479 + +A patch that adds mips and mipsel into NoSharedLibsPlatformList +is attached. + +After applying this patch, +I was able to successfully build ghc 7.8.2 for mips nad mipsel. + +Index: ghc-7.8.20140710/mk/config.mk.in +=================================================================== +--- ghc-7.8.20140710.orig/mk/config.mk.in ++++ ghc-7.8.20140710/mk/config.mk.in +@@ -99,7 +99,9 @@ NoSharedLibsPlatformList = powerpc-unkno + x86_64-unknown-mingw32 \ + i386-unknown-mingw32 \ + sparc-sun-solaris2 \ +- sparc-unknown-linux ++ sparc-unknown-linux \ ++ mips-unknown-linux \ ++ mipsel-unknown-linux + + ifeq "$(SOLARIS_BROKEN_SHLD)" "YES" + NoSharedLibsPlatformList += i386-unknown-solaris2 diff -Nru ghc-7.8.20140710/debian/patches/series ghc-7.8.20140710/debian/patches/series --- ghc-7.8.20140710/debian/patches/series 2014-07-10 09:17:17.000000000 +0100 +++ ghc-7.8.20140710/debian/patches/series 2014-07-15 09:32:43.000000000 +0100 @@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ haddock-hardcode-ghc-paths Fix-documentation-build-failure-without-GHCi.patch arm64.patch +mips-support.patch diff -Nru ghc-7.8.20140710/debian/rules ghc-7.8.20140710/debian/rules --- ghc-7.8.20140710/debian/rules 2014-06-10 09:45:58.000000000 +0100 +++ ghc-7.8.20140710/debian/rules 2014-07-15 09:29:55.000000000 +0100 @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ # We also want to build the threaded profiling-enabled debug runtime, # because it does no harm echo 'GhcRTSWays += $$(if $$(findstring p, $$(GhcLibWays)),thr_debug_p,)' >> mk/build.mk -ifneq (,$(findstring $(DEB_HOST_ARCH),armel armhf)) +ifneq (,$(findstring $(DEB_HOST_ARCH),armel armhf mips mipsel)) # GHCi is too badly broken on ARM; see # http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7794 echo "GhcWithInterpreter = NO" >> mk/build.mk
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