Bug#712228: Your mail

[Bálint Réczey]

Hi,

2016-09-11 10:44 GMT+02:00 Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg at debian.org>:
> Hi,
>
>>https://patches.ubuntu.com/g/ghc/ghc_7.10.3-9ubuntu1.patch
>
>
> this patch was already committed on ghc 8 branch, and I also committed
> on the master branch (7.10.3), however, I won't upload it.
>>An other option would be bootstrapping GHC in Debian with
>>-fPIC, but I'm not sure if this is viable.
>
>
> that might sound better in the long run, even if it requires probably more
> effort.
>
> I finished the Ubuntu haskell transition without many issues, so I presume
> this patch is safe for unstable, but I don't feel enough confident because
> I can't rebuild and NMU stuff in Debian :)

Thank you for working on the transition for Debian, too.
I have tested the fix and it does not seem to fix the build on Debian
most probably due
to missing additional patches to GCC.

The build system needs more changes IMO.

I'll look into passing -fPIC down to all the gcc calls to fix the build.

You can test the new GCC 6, too, by adding the following line to
sources.list on your test system:
deb https://people.debian.org/~rbalint/ppa/pie-bindnow pie-bindnow-unstable/

Cheers,
Balint