Re: ghc 9.4.7 needs some manual bootstrap on hppa

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 04:01:57PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-10-24 at 16:27 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > - haskell-quickcheck/hppa did FTBFS with ghc 9.4.6 due to #1052306
> > - ghc >= 9.4.7-1~exp1 uses the the Hadrian build system (due to #1051493)
> > - haskell-hadrian/hppa is uncompiled, blocked by haskell-quickcheck
> 
> There have been a number of regressions in GHC upstream unfortunately and despite
> me spending hours over hours into getting those sorted out, I have only been able
> to get GHC to work on sparc64 again.
>...

9.4.6 did build on hppa (although not at first attempt),
breaking the dependency cycle might be enough to get 9.4.7.

> Adrian

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Adrian