Bug#647309: haskell-src-exts: FTBFS on hppa

[John David Anglin]

On 2016-09-18, at 7:38 PM, John David Anglin wrote:

> On 2016-09-15, at 12:24 PM, Clint Adams wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 10:40:07AM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
>>> It might be possible to force gcc to do more frequent garbage collection at
>>> the expense of compile time.  Changing
>>> optimizations might help.  Maybe program could be restructured...
>> 
>> Got a patch in mind?
> 
> Maybe add hppa to the arches listed here in rules:
> 
> ifneq (,$(filter $(DEB_BUILD_ARCH),mips mipsel))
>       DEB_SETUP_GHC6_CONFIGURE_ARGS += --ghc-options="-optc--param -optcggc-min-expand=10"
> endif


Adding "hppa" to the above rule resulted in a successful build:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=haskell-src-exts&arch=hppa&ver=1.17.1-1%2Bb2&stamp=1474365987

However, the build time increased significantly.

Dave
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