Bug#1023649: ghc: FTBFS haskell-random powerpc (ghc Segmentation fault)

[Ilias Tsitsimpis]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 05:12PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I think you created a little hen and egg problem here by incorporating both
> the switch to the Hadrian build system as well as the 32-bit unregisterised
> and sparc64 build fixes into the same upload.
> 
> Might a good idea to upload the two build fixes unstable first to get a working
> 9.4.x compiler for all targets so we're able to build haskell-hadrian first.

Unfortunately we cannot currently build GHC from unstable, unless we use
the Hadrian build system, see https://bugs.debian.org/1051493. It was a
mistake uploading GHC 9.4.6 to unstable, without noticing that we need
the new build system first.

I think our best bet here is to bootstap GHC on these architectures,
that's why I have introduced the 'pkg.ghc.nohadrian' build profile. Let
me know if I can help, or if there is a better way to do it that I am
missing.

-- 
Ilias