[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] GMP change may affect ghc

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 02.07.2013, 21:46 -0500 schrieb Steve M. Robbins:
> This message is addressed to all maintainers of a package that
> build-depends on gmp.
> 
> Yesterday's upload (gmp version 5.1.2+dfsg-2) changed the location of
> gmp.h from /usr/include to /usr/include/$(multi-arch-triplet).  This
> was done to fix bug #675577.  This change *should* be invisible, since
> the compiler searches by default /usr/include/$(multi-arch-triplet).
> I tested a few packages and found they built fine.  However, I've been
> informed of one package that does fail to build with this change.
> Since there may be other such packages, I thought I'd send out this
> note to alert everyone.
> 
> Secondly: I removed the libtool .la files.  They had been 'emptied'
> since 2011, so hopefully this causes no issue. 

I just ran a test built of GHC in a schroot and it seems to work (it
failed at the install phase as it ran out of space on my /tmp tmpfs, but
if it got that far then things should be fine).

Greetings,
Joachim

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