Haskell Platform 2012.2.0.0

[Jens Petersen]

Hi,

I made a test build of a monolithic subpackaged build of Haskell
Platform 2012.2.0.0.
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4131404

You can test it with the ghc-7.4.1 in F18 rawhide.

I am considering moving to this monolithic package for F18,
since it speeds up building HP considerably (there is very
little churn of individual HP libraries and packages anyway) and
it also makes it a lot easier to test and experiment with
Haskell Platform.

Feedback is welcome.

Jens

ps I had to make some more fixes to the build for ppc
- I plan to commit the final changes soon to git.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jens Petersen 
Date: 6 June 2012 11:36
Subject: Re: Announce: Haskell Platform 2012.2.0.0
To: haskell-platform

On 4 June 2012 01:24, Mark Lentczner  wrote:
> We're pleased to announce the next release of Haskell Platform:
> a single, standard Haskell distribution for everyone.

Thanks

I finally managed to get my new monolithic Fedora build with
subpackaging working.
Haskell Platform might be the hardest package I have ever subpackaged...
Then again I don't think anyone else subpackages ghc fully?

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4131404

The build takes about 20 minutes but that is still a lot faster
then building all the packages individually in the buildsystem.

My hope is that using the monolithic package will make
it easier to bootstrap for ghc updates and to test and experiment
with HP in the future.  But I still haven't made a final decision
yet on changing Fedora 18 to use the single source package.

The binary packages are available at
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/scratch/petersen/task_4131404/
or you can rebuild the src rpm locally if you wish to test it.

Jens