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[bug#42014] [PATCH] WIP: gnu: Re-bootstrap Haskell with GHC 8.2.2 binari
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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[bug#42014] [PATCH] WIP: gnu: Re-bootstrap Haskell with GHC 8.2.2 binaries. |
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Sat, 27 Jun 2020 23:21:05 +0200 |
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mu4e 1.4.10; emacs 26.3 |
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.)
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Ricardo