[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#752460: haskell-nettle: FTBFS for mips/mipsel due to lack of GHCi support

[Dejan Latinovic]

Hi,

if you think that backporting would be better solution,
no problem, I will prepare a patch.



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From: Colin Watson [cjwatson at debian.org]
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 11:11 PM
To: Dejan Latinovic; 752460 at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#752460: haskell-nettle: FTBFS for mips/mipsel due to lack of GHCi support

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 05:48:00PM +0000, Dejan Latinovic wrote:
> While trying to build haskell-nettle on mips/mipsel architecture,
> build fails on testing with an error:
>
> > Building nettle-0.1.0...
> > Preprocessing library nettle-0.1.0...
> > [ 1 of 11] Compiling Crypto.Nettle.Hash.Types ( src/Crypto/Nettle/Hash/Types.hs, dist-ghc/build/Crypto/Nettle/Hash/Types.o )
> > [ 2 of 11] Compiling Crypto.Nettle.KeyedHash ( src/Crypto/Nettle/KeyedHash.hs, dist-ghc/build/Crypto/Nettle/KeyedHash.o )
> > [ 3 of 11] Compiling Crypto.Nettle.HMAC ( src/Crypto/Nettle/HMAC.hs, dist-ghc/build/Crypto/Nettle/HMAC.o )
> > [ 4 of 11] Compiling Nettle.Utils     ( src/Nettle/Utils.hs, dist-ghc/build/Nettle/Utils.o )
> > [ 5 of 11] Compiling Crypto.Nettle.Hash.ForeignImports ( dist-ghc/build/Crypto/Nettle/Hash/ForeignImports.hs, dist-ghc/build/Crypto/Nettle/Hash/ForeignImports.o )
> > ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
> >   (GHC version 7.6.3 for mipsel-unknown-linux):
> >     Cant do annotations without GHCi
> >     {src/Crypto/Nettle/Hash/ForeignImports.hsc:138:16-44}
> >     "HLint: ignore Use camelCase"

See https://github.com/stbuehler/haskell-nettle/pull/4.

I wonder if it would be worth backporting the GHC patch referenced from
that bug, rather than continuing to apply workarounds in various modules
that we're just going to have to undo later?

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]