Re: Crowdfunding a small but important powerpc bugfix

2024-01-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On Tue, 2024-01-02 at 15:40 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > If we're lucky, the original regression of the 32-bit PowerPC native codegen > backend > might already be fixed in newer versions of the GHC compiler [3], so that we > can switch > back from an unregisterised build to t

Re: Crowdfunding a small but important powerpc bugfix

2024-01-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On Wed, 2023-10-11 at 15:38 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > There is a regression in the GHC Haskell Compiler [1] that I have been > investigating for several days. While I have been able to identify the > commit that introduced the regression, I have not been able to fix > that i

Re: Crowdfunding a small but important powerpc bugfix

2023-10-15 Thread Johannes Brakensiek
Hi Adrian, Am Mittwoch, dem 11.10.2023 um 15:38 +0200 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > I don't think we need to collect a lot of money, a few hundred > dollars should > probably be more than enough. We don't have to use Bountysource.com > for what > is worth. Any other platform or donation sys

Re: Crowdfunding a small but important powerpc bugfix

2023-10-11 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wednesday, October 11, 2023, Stan Johnson wrote: > Hello, > > Please post a link that indicates whether the GHC Haskell Compiler > license is compatible with the GPL. I haven't been able to find anything > online regarding compatibility. I would be interested in any license > issues before lear

Re: Crowdfunding a small but important powerpc bugfix

2023-10-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On Wed, 2023-10-11 at 08:58 -0600, Stan Johnson wrote: > Please post a link that indicates whether the GHC Haskell Compiler > license is compatible with the GPL. I haven't been able to find anything > online regarding compatibility. I would be interested in any license > issues before learning

Re: Crowdfunding a small but important powerpc bugfix

2023-10-11 Thread Stan Johnson
Hello, Please post a link that indicates whether the GHC Haskell Compiler license is compatible with the GPL. I haven't been able to find anything online regarding compatibility. I would be interested in any license issues before learning more about this compiler. The license appears to allow mod

Crowdfunding a small but important powerpc bugfix

2023-10-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! There is a regression in the GHC Haskell Compiler [1] that I have been investigating for several days. While I have been able to identify the commit that introduced the regression, I have not been able to fix that issue since I don't have the necessary Haskell knowledge to be able to work on G