Bug#839840: ghci segfaults on armel, related to doctest failure

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 05.04.2017, 11:01 +0000 schrieb Niels Thykier:
> 
> We got a double RC buggy ghc on armel (this bug plus #851373, which also
> affects armhf).  Unfortunately, I cannot see any progress on these bugs
> (this one has been without updates since Oct 2016 and the other one
> since Jan 2017).
> 
> It would be very unfortunate to release with packages we cannot compile
> (any longer), so I would prefer this being fixed or as a last resort,
> drop of ghc and all rdeps on armel+armhf.
> 
> Ideally, this resolution should happen fairly soon, so it does not end
> up stalling the release.

doctest (and more general, the interpreter) has been plaguing us since
years, and it has never worked flawless. Unfortunately, only very few
of us know about arm-specific compiler details (I don’t), so given that
we do not even know the precise cause, I don’t expect a quick fix.

Maybe erikd can give a better assessment.

Greetings,
Joachim

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