Bug#1085966: ghc: ftbfs: help: Use extra --ghc-options does not reduce binary size (based on ghc 9.6.6-2)

[Ilias Tsitsimpis]

Hi Dandan,

On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 11:16AM, zhangdandan wrote:
> Please give us some suggestions.
> Let's discuss and solve the problem together under this bug.
> Your opinions are welcome.

Unfortunately I am not an expert on this and I don't really know why it
fails. It looks like GHC is broken/incomplete on LoongArch64, so I would
suggest you report this upstream[1]. I will happily backport any fix but
we have to first discuss it with them.

[1] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues

As a workaround, maybe we can try to build an unregisterised compiler on
LoongArch64 and use that instead, until this bug is fixed. Can you try
and see if an unregisterised GHC works and build pandoc successfully?

Best,

-- 
Ilias