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ghc 6.12.3 goes stable
Good news! We’ve got ghc-6.12.3 stable on x86, amd64 and sparc arches! (more to come) What does it mean for end user? You’ll get latest haskell compiler and will be able to taste it’s new features! We...
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gentoo haskell overlay moved to github
We have moved gentoo-haskell overlay to github! It will require some additional actions for overlay users: layman -f layman -d haskell layman -a haskell Our move was stimulated by a couple of events:...
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ghc-7.4 in the gentoo tree
A year has passed since last update from gentoo haskell team. Quite a few things have happened in haskell land since: ghc-7.2 and 7.4 were released by GHC HQ hackage got ever increasing ton of package...
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EAPI=5, ghc-7.6 and other goodies
Today I have unmasked ghc-7.6.1 in gentoo‘s haskell overlay. Quite a few of things is broken (like unbumped yet gtk2hs), but major things (like darcs) seem to work fine. Feel free to drop a line on...
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GHC as a cross-compiler
Another small breakthrough today for those who would like to see haskell programs running. Here is a small incomplete HOWTO for gentoo users on how to build a crosscompiler running on x86_64 host...
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a haskell dev survey
Ladies and gentlemen! If you happen to be involved in using/developing haskell-powered software you might like to answer our poll on that matter. Thanks in advance!
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ghc-7.6: weak symbols and ghci
Time to time internetz stumble upon a ghci bug which is seen as inability to load base haskell package: Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done....
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7.8.1-rc1 Gentoo experience
A week ago Austin Seipp and GHC team announced first release candidate from 7.8 branch. As a packager I was especially interested in following features: GHCi (and dynamic linking) on unregisterised...
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unsafePerformIO and missing NOINLINE
Two months ago Ivan asked me if we had working darcs-2.8 for ghc-7.8 in gentoo. We had a workaround to compile darcs to that day, but darcs did not work reliably. Sometimes it needed 2-3 attempts to...
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ghc 7.8.3 and rare architectures
After some initially positive experience with ghc-7.8-rc1 I’ve decided to upstream most of gentoo fixes. On rare arches ghc-7.8.3 behaves a bit bad: ia64 build stopped being able to link itself after...
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How to deal with portage blockers
TL;DR: use --autounmask=n use --backtrack=1000 (or more) package.mask all outdated packages that cause conflicts (usually requires more iterations) run world update The problem Occasionally (more...
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GHC as a cross-compiler update
TL;DR: Gentoo’s dev-lang/ghc-8.2.1_rc1 supports both cross-building and cross-compiling modes! It’s useful for cross-compiling haskell software and initial porting of GHC itself on a new gentoo target....
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