Bug#807108: ghc: Please add platform detection support for sh4 (patch supplied)

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi John,

Am Samstag, den 05.12.2015, 13:19 +0100 schrieb John Paul Adrian
Glaubitz:
> 
> I am currently preparing a ghc package for Debian's sh4 port.
> 
> I have successfully bootstrapped ghc via cross-compilation [1] and I
> am now building the actual Debian package which I will upload to the
> 'unreleased' suite later.

That’s pretty awsome! I did not know that cross-compilation works so
well these days. I’m sure the GHC developers would like to hear about
it. Would you mind writing to the upstream mailing list at
https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
and tell them about your experience, i.e. what you did, how you did it,
what went well and what not so well. This will also be useful
information for any further porters to other systems.

> In order for ghc to actually build on sh4, I had to add sh4 to the
> list of known architectures in aclocal.m4. Please add the attached
> patch to the package's Debian patches so the official Debian ghc
> package supports sh4 as well.

Will do. This should also go upstream. Do you want to upstream it (by
opening a ticket at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ and attaching
it)?

Greetings,
Joachim

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