Bug#1124748: ghc: not binNMU safe on armhf?

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi Ilias,

On Fri, 2026-01-09 at 18:08 +0200, Ilias Tsitsimpis wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2026 at 01:59PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > The attached patch fixes the problem for me. It's not an ideal solution 
> > as it
> > hardwires 32-bit ARM targets to armv7, but it should give us a rough idea what
> > the underlying problem is.
> 
> Unfortunately this patch results in an unregisterised GHC on armhf. I 
> tried to modify more places to fix this (see attached armv7.patch file) 
> but this resulted in a broken build.

Yeah, I was already fearing something like that. My guess is that the ghc-toolchain
code needs to be reworked to support ABI types such as "gnueabihf".

> I also tried disabling the check that GHC does during configuration (see 
> attached remove-check.patch file) and this succeeded. So at least we 
> have this as a backup plan.

Does that allow the build to complete?

Adrian

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