[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#763078: confirmed llvm change broke ghc

[Joey Hess]

Confirmed that installing llvm-3.4 and putting /usr/lib/llvm-3.4/bin
first in PATH before running ghc lets it build working executables on
armel and armhf.

This is certianly a bug in ghc. It should not depend on llvm, but on the
llvm-$ver it was built against, and it should use the toolchain from
that specific version of llvm.

This could also be be considered a bug in llvm. Changing the
dependency package to use llvm-3.5 less than a week before the slushy
freeze is perhaps not the best idea?

I think llvm should be prevented from migration to testing until this is
sorted out in ghc and/or lvm, so I am leaving this bug assigned to both
packages.

There's also the worry of what happens if the autobuilders have built
any haskell libraries using the new llvm on armel/hf. If there's been an
ABI break in the code generated by llvm, that seems like it could get
messy fast.

-- 
see shy jo, off to work around this in order to get a security fix into testing
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