[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#785194: ghc: relocation failures on powerpc

[Colin Watson]

Package: ghc
Version: 7.8.4-4
Severity: important
Forwarded: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10402

We're seeing some relocation failures on powerpc.  For example:

  https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=haskell-wai-app-static&arch=powerpc&ver=3.0.1-3&stamp=1431236338

  ghc: /usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc/lib/powerpc-linux-ghc-7.8.4/unix-time-0.3.5/libHSunix-time-0.3.5.a: unhandled ELF relocation(RelA) type 252

I tracked this down and sent an RTS patch upstream as
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10402.  It hasn't been applied
yet, but I at least got a "looks plausible".  Can we go ahead and apply
this to the Debian packaging?

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]