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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]