Re: [Fink-users] ghc 6.8.2

[Brendan C. <bc...@us...>]

On Tuesday, 06 May 2008 at 09:13, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> Hello to those interested in GHC
>>
>> There is an info file for 6.8.2 in package tracker.
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=414256&aid=1868481&group_id=17203
>>
>> It builds for me on 10.4 intel and reportedly fails on 10.5 ppc.
>>
>> If it builds on 10.4 ppc perhaps it could be committed at least for 10.4.
>>
>> I wonder how the Haskell people build the package for 10.5 but it
>> looks like it is not currently possible on 10.5 ppc due to Apple
>> linker bug.
>>
>> Testers welcome.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Michal
>>   
> I'm cc'ing the package's maintainer

If you look at that tracker item, you'll see that I am the one
reporting problems with the build on 10.5. I've gotten errors from the
linker both when using the 6.6 and 6.8.2 bootstraps (in the latter
case, the bootstrap compiler works but the stage1 compiler fails). It
may work on 10.4, but I don't have an easy way to test that.

Frankly, I don't feel up to the challenge of maintaining this
particular package. I ended up adopting it because it burnt out the
last maintainer in the same way :)