[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#784245: ghc: build against llvm-toolchain >= 3.5

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 04.05.2015, 15:39 +0200 schrieb Emilio Pozuelo Monfort:
> Your package builds against llvm-toolchain-3.4, which is scheduled for
> removal, see #783516). Please build against a newer llvm toolchain, such
> as 3.5 or (if possible) 3.6.

ghc generates LLVM bytecode that is relatively specific to the
particular version of LLVM, and upstream only supports one specific
version per GHC. I’d like to avoid the risky business to patch around in
the internals of the code generator here.

The next version of GHC, which is already released by upstream (7.10)
uses LLVM 3.5 or 3.6 (not sure which one right now). My estimate is that
we’ll have that in Debian unstable in maybe 3 or 4 months.

Greetings,
Joachim

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