On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 11:48:06PM -0600, Jeff Wheeler wrote:
> >Kili discussed this:
> >http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=122056776110888&w=2
>
> Thanks, I appreciate the link, although I'm somewhat disappointed with
> the contents.
>
> I'm a newbie, and OpenBSD seems like a great OS, but I've been scared
> off a bit by the harsh tone in a lot of messages, including the linked
> one [...]
I just described the procedure of building a recent GHC, the problems
you'll run into when working on the port, and some of of the general
problems with GHC that caused lots of trouble in the past.
Some of my mails on the Haskell mailing lists were much more harsh,
yet Simon Peyton-Jones told me that I was probably too quite and
polite in the past ;-)
> Anyways, thanks for the help! I'll try to play with a FreeBSD/NetBSD-
> esque solution on my local machine, despite ugliness.
We probably will do something similar for OpenBSD, but a little bit
cleaner and only until ghc-6.12 will be released (probably autumn
2009): I've prepared a "minimalistic" port based on ghc-6.6, that
will be used for building ghc-6.10. Jona Joachim sent me his work
on ghc-6.10 built with the mini-ghc-6.6, and I really hope to look
at it soon (sorry for having nearly no spare time recently). It
should be possible to get a working ghc-6.10 for OpenBSD within
this month, but still only for i386 and amd64. But then there may
still be ports that just don't compile with ghc-6.10 -- Jona mentioned
problems with xmonad, and IIRC the developers of darcs had some
trouble getting darcs built with ghc-6.10 (this may be fixed now).
Ciao,
Kili
