Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Isaac Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> Is this bug still applicable.  Can it enter etch/testing?
>>
>> I'm afraid that this bug is still applicable until a GHC 6.4 version
>> enters testing.  Perhaps this will happen now that the 'grave' bugs
>> are cleared?  Are we waiting forf 6.4.1 before letting GHC enter
>> testing?
>
> It's caught up in the libgmpxx C++ ABI transition.  This requires a
> manual bootstrap of ghc6 for all arches (I did powerpc today), so it
> won't enter testing before this has been done.  It will also require a
> number of dependent packages building as well (happy, haddock,
> haskell-utils) before it will be installable.

Thanks for the info.  So what needs to happen for the GHC
bootstrapping is that a binary version of GHC needs to get uploaded to
each platform?  I'm still wondering if Ian is planning to let it enter
testing at that point.

peace,

  isaac


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