[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#740144: ghc: 64-bit big endian support

[Aurelien Jarno]

Package: ghc
Version: 7.6.3-7
Severity: important
Tags: upstream patch

Hi,

ghc has been removed from the archive on s390x because it hangs randomly
during the build process. This has been reported upstream as ticket
#7993, which hasn't progress so far. In the meantime the same issue has
been reported as ticket #8134 for powerpc64. It happens the problem is
the same and that it affect 64-bit big endian platforms.

A patch is provided in this bug report, and has been committed upstream.
I have tried this patch and I have been been able to build ghc
successfully 3 times in a loop after bootstraping it from the last
available binary in snapshot.d.o.

I have attached this patch to this bug report for convenience, so that
it could be dropped in debian/patches. Would it be possible to upload 
a fixed version with this patch? I will then take care of bootstrapping
the binary on s390x again and uploading the package to the archive.

Thanks,
Aurelien

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: s390x

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-s390x (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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