Re: rawhide report: 20150217 changes
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen
An update on ghc-7.8 progress:
> [Agda]
> [Agda-stdlib]
Newer Agda which builds with ghc-7.8 needs some new deps:
equivalence, data-hash, boxes, STMonadTrans, and tf-random -> QuickCheck >= 2.7.5.
Possibily it could also be moved to Copr if there is little interest.
> [cab]
Newer cab needs newer conduit which I think is attractive to have anyway.
> [ghc-ForSyDe]
> [ghc-parameterized-data]
> [ghc-type-level]
I plan to retire this electronics stack which is no longer actively
maintained upstream.
> [hedgewars]
Good news, Bruno Wolf has kindly done the legwork to get this to build. :-)
So it should disappear from tomorrow's report.
> [hledger]
Newer hledger needs new tabular and wizards (-> control-monad-free -> prelude-extras) to build.
We could also consider moving it to Copr is there is not much demand.
I am happy to file Review Requests if people are intersted in keeping it.
(I asked mathstuf if he has time to look at it.)
> [leksah]
This also needs new deps: regex-tdfa-text, vado, vcsgui, vcswrapper.
Again I thinking about moving this to Copr.
I would be less of a burden to maintain it there.
9 years, 2 months
ghc-7.8 now in Fedora Rawhide
by Jens Petersen
The Fedora Haskell SIG is pleased to announce the arrival of GHC 7.8 in Fedora 22 Rawhide (development tree).
- the GHC version is 7.8.4: we are no longer following haskell-platform strictly
- Around 125 Haskell packages have been updated to new versions, including pandoc-1.13.2.
See <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GHC_7.8>.
GHC 7.8 has a lot of nice new features including:
- shared dynamic libraries on *nix arches
- a new runtime I/O manager which scales much better for larger workloads
- new NCG and overhauled llvm backend
See <https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.8.4/docs/html/users_guide/release-7-...>
At the same there are currently still a number of provisos in Rawhide:
- a few packages have not yet been rebuilt/updated with ghc-7.8.4:
- build errors: bustle, ghc-ForSyde, ghc-type-level, ghc-parameterized-data
- missing new deps: hledger, Agda, leksah, cab
- also the RTS seems to have some strange problems on ARM leading to crashes which is under investagation: no idris build on armv7.
These should be fixed over the coming days/weeks.
Please report any problems you find in bugzilla.
Thanks, Jens
9 years, 2 months
Re: rawhide report: 20150210 changes
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen
> > ghc-7.8.4-41.fc22
> > -----------------
>
> Oh dear - gcc5 changes all the ghc library ABI hashes.
Sorry my initial hunch seems incorrect.
AFAICT now the ABI changes are due to -40 having
been built with make -j16 on i686 and x86_64.
In future I will use -j4 or less again.
Jens
9 years, 2 months
