Hi, I've started the work of getting the Debian ghc6 (and ghc7) packages up to date. This is really a mess I promise you, since ghc is a compiler and is depending on itself. Partial results will be reported later. (Maybe cross compiling is a better solution, time will show.)
However, when compiling under kvm, the compilation either freezes, exits due to exceptions or Hurd just hangs. I have been looking at the memory and disk usage and found no problem here, memory allocated is 1-1.5GB and free space is around 4GB. Looks like Hurd bugs out randomly under heavy load. (I don't think the problem is due to qemu-kvm?) Another annoying thing that the Debian package build commands are too coarse grained: dpkg-buildpackage -b: configures, complies and builds the package (if successful) dpkg-buildpackage -b -nc: skips the configure stage only. Compile starts from the beginning, not where it failed. This is extremely time-consuming in case of compile problems. I can of course run the generated makefiles manually, but do not generally know in which order to run them. The most annoying part is that even if the libraries and executables are successfully built by manual intervention, the build-stamp is not created. Does manually creating it make dpkg-buildpackage happy to continue building the package?? Same applies to running debian/rules directly.
