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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Alex Griffin <a@ajgrf.com>
Cc: 42014@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#42014] [PATCH] WIP: gnu: Re-bootstrap Haskell with GHC 8.2.2 binaries.
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2020 23:21:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7uwp5mm.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iqxuLyt2f_ck_2DTkqr6jKDaFGhsrSuEQQA8frhOSY4s2mymb9NgH2csILFrwNHi0mxHMNKYFBsshhyhXiKkHUgNqKI4yrmwfKixnISeU6Q=@ajgrf.com>


Alex Griffin via Guix-patches via <guix-patches@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




  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-27 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-23  1:48 [bug#42014] [PATCH] WIP: gnu: Re-bootstrap Haskell with GHC 8.2.2 binaries Alex Griffin via Guix-patches via
2020-06-27 21:16 ` [bug#42014] [PATCH] WIP: gnu: ghc@8.4: Support 32- and 64-bit ARM systems Alex Griffin via Guix-patches via
2020-06-27 21:21 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2020-06-27 22:09   ` [bug#42014] [PATCH] WIP: gnu: Re-bootstrap Haskell with GHC 8.2.2 binaries Alex Griffin via Guix-patches via

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