[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#631073: Bug#631073: closed by Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> (Bug#631073: fixed in ghc 7.0.4-8)

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Ben Finney wrote:

> On 30-Oct-2011, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > Changes: 
> >  ghc (7.0.4-8) unstable; urgency=low
> >  .
> >    * Remove ghci support on powerpc (Closes: #631073)
> 
> Does that apply only to ‘ghc’, or to all of Haskell generally? Is there
> another Haskell interpreter which can work on PowerPC that could be used as
> an alternative dependency?

No, even the Hugs interpreter (which has now bitrotted upstream) is
not a suitable replacement for ghci.

I have been intermitently working on fixing ghci for powerpc, but its
been rather difficult as the problem is in ghci's runtime linker and
gdb is less useful than normal because it doesn't understand ghci's
stack manipulation.

Erik
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