[Fedora-haskell-list] headsup: ghc-6.12.3

[Jens Petersen]

----- "Bruno Wolff III" <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> > > Probably kaya and hedgewars should be rebuilt too.
> > 
> > I'll bump hedgewars once the update shows up.
> 
> I am not seeing a conflict with hedgewars after the update. So for now
> at least, I don't think hedgewars needs to be rebuilt.

Right, there shouldn't be any conflict since ghc links
statically by default (dynlinking is still considered experimental
upstream though it may become default for Linux in 6.14 perhaps).

I just suggested the rebuilds as best practice. :)
And to avoid future FTBFS bugs, etc. :)

> None of the ghc related requires (ghc-dataenc, ghc-network, ghc-stm,
> ghc-utf8-string) were version specific. Does that indicate that the
> requires
> were set up improperly or just that these packages didn't have an abi
> change?

You should not need those Requires since they are for shared libs.
Rpm would generate them for you automatically: so they should be
redundant.  You could pass "-dynamic" to ghc if you want to
link to the shared libraries.

Thanks, Jens

ps Note also that ghc-utf8-string is also available and preferred in F13 now.