Bug#1052144: ghc: Needs to link against libatomic on at least m68k

[Ilias Tsitsimpis]

Hi Adrian,

On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 09:20AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> The attached patch fixes the issue for me. The underlying problem is
> the use of legacy atomic functions for which no 64-bit variants exist
> on some architectures [1]. See also the upstream discussion here [2].

Is this patch enough, or do we have to backport this [1] as well?

[1] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/commit/fc186b0c0ac56d6ff6225d3f6607be37770fcb52

> While this patch fixes the original problem, the stage2 build later
> fails due to memory exhaustion for which I haven't found a solution
> yet.

I faced the same issue on mipsel (see [2]) and never found a solution
for it. Luckily, mipsel got removed from release architectures.

[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-mips/2023/07/msg00057.html

Best,

-- 
Ilias