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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -4.71 X-Spam-Score: -4.71 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 370B85F89C X-Migadu-Scanner: mx13.migadu.com X-TUID: rPUbS1zAjB9Q Hello, Saku! Saku Laesvuori writes: > I think you need to add every other major release to the chain. We > already have 9.2 and 9.4, so 9.6 should not be a problem in that regard. Okay, so GHC needs to be incrementally upgraded, understood. >> Also, is the process of adding a GHC release, or any Haskell package >> any different from the typical procedure to add a package? I'd like >> some introductory guidance/resources to learn that. > > Not really, but this specific update (GHC 9.4 to 9.6) is quite tricky > because GHC changed their build system from a make to Hadrian. Hadrian > written in Haskell and depends on quite many packages, so we need to > build all those with an earlier GHC version to be able to build the > current GHC. See https://issues.guix.gnu.org/67921 for the current > situation with this. I am still quite busy with other things in life, so > feel free to pick those patches up. Indeed, since I=E2=80=99ve done a bit of tinkering with GHC=E2=80=99s sourc= e, and have tried building with Hadrian, I=E2=80=99ll see what can be done.= Thank you for referring me to the issue, I=E2=80=99ll check. > The Guix manual[1] and cookbook[2] have generic documentation and examples > for creating Guix packages. > > [1]: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html > [2]: https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/guix-cookbook.html Thanks! Regards, --=20 Divya Ranjan, Philosophy, Mathematics, Libre Software.