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

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi Ben,

Am Montag, den 31.10.2011, 09:49 +1100 schrieb Erik de Castro Lopo:
> > 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.

also note that only ghci was removed, not ghc entirely, so a large
portion of the haskell ecosystem is still available on powerpc.

Greetings,
Joachim

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