[arch-haskell] New GHC -- any wishes on how it should be built?

[Magnus Therning]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 10:35:06PM +0200, Nicola Squartini wrote:
> I have some doubts regarding LLVM, since it automatically optimizes
> the code for the build architecture and chances are that it will not
> run on older x86_64. I think it's better to wait until llvm-3.5,
> which should remove the auto optimization.

Indeed, turning on LLVM with this version of GHC would require a bit
of work on `cblrepo` to make sure the generated PKGBUILDs instructs
GHC to tell LLVM that we want "generic" binaries.  Complicated
sentence, I know, but you know what I mean :)  In short, that
particular change is unlikely to happen unless there is a killer
reason for using LLVM to build.

/M

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