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<p>Folks,</p>
<p>I'm glad to report that I finally get GHC 8.8.2 with
cabal-install 3.0.0.0 working on SmartOS x64, you can checkout
detailed steps and all the patches applied at <a
href="https://gitlab.haskell.org/complyue/smart-ghc8">https://gitlab.haskell.org/complyue/smart-ghc8
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<p>The only pity so far, is that the built GHC 8.6.5 has its `ghci`
not working with a strange iconv error, and failing building one
of my Haskell applications. I myself am going to use 8.8.2 where
possible from now on. But given not all great libs have been
updated being 8.8 compatible, I feel it still worth some further
effort to get 8.6.5 working.</p>
<p>And regarding stack, as it's focused on managing binary
distributions of GHC (build-from-src not working very well per my
experience), it'll need a trusted binary repository for stack to
work with on SmartOS. A private http server hosting the bindists
should be straight forward, but I'm not interested to host a
publicly available binary repository with those bindist tarballs
digitally signed (or there're security concerns). If anyone is
interested, I'd like to help as far as I can.</p>
<p>I would particular like to see Nix be ported to
SmartOS/Illumos/Solaris, so I could contribute to nixpkgs instead,
which should save more asses in tool dependency resolution, but
seems that's not an option in near future.<br>
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<p>I'm thankful to folks at #ghc and #smartos who helped me so much
in this journey. Especially bgamari, without his hints and
bleeding edge patches this won't be possible at all. And thanks to
geekosaur for his professional insights into the linker situation
on SmartOS, quick and precise identification of the problem from
the error messages so confusing to me.<br>
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<p><a
href="https://www.mail-archive.com/smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org/msg05016.html">https://www.mail-archive.com/smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org/msg05016.html</a>
provided the information to get me started at all, and thanks to
Jonathan Perkin for confirming the bootstrapping path being a
viable route in the first place.</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Compl Yue<br>
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