[bug#67921] [PATCH v3 01/24] gnu: ghc: More robust build with binutils ≥ 2.39.

[Divya Ranjan]

Nicolas Graves <ngraves@ngraves.fr> writes:

> On 2024-11-13 04:47, Divya Ranjan via Guix-patches via wrote:
>
>> Hello Nicholas, Lars and others.
>>
>> I’ve planned to pick up the work needed for this upgrade. Where are we
>> and what more work is needed? A brief summary with specific tasks
>> would help me get started.
>
> I haven't managed to get much more done.  What happened is that
> core-updates broke the original patch series, the patch I added fixes
> the build of version 9.4.8 and makes a previous patch unnecessary, but
> the way I wrote it required to build from versions 8.6 (basically one
> entire day of pure build on my machine).
>
> If I were to rebuild everything from 8.6 once again, I would actually
> rather try the #:make-flag EXTRA_HC_OPTS (IIRC) which is definitely the
> same thing in 9.4.8, but it wasn't that clear in 8.6.

Is building everything from 8.6 a good idea though? Is it /that/ broken?

> From there you'll see that some tests for 9.6 are still broken.  I last
> was working on decoupling the build (which works) from the tests (some
> still failed, hard to understand why), because the rebuild is huge and
> makes iterations quite painful.  But even that is hard since you would
> need the hadrian test phase to be run to get the necessary files
> (hadrian config for tests and some binaries) to run tests independently
> in another guix package.  IIRC I stopped there but still have some
> progress in my stash. 

Okay, is there any particular reason why this is being so hard? I haven’t seen 
such problems with Nix.

Regards,
-- 
Divya Ranjan,
Philosophy, Mathematics, Libre Software.