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

[Nicola Squartini]

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.

Nicola


On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Now there's a new version of GHC out, 7.8.3.  This means a complete
> rebuild of [haskell-core] is necessary, which also means that NOW is
> the perfect time to make fundamental changes to our packages, e.g. to
> change from the 'perf' build profile to 'pref-llvm', or move the
> location of the documentation.
>
> I've not received any such wishes via issues on Github, but maybe
> there's someone out there thinking "oh, if they only changed this in
> how Arch Haskell packages are built, then the world would be 10 times
> better".  If you are that someone, then please speak up now! :)
>
> I'll start the big rebuild at 12:00 UTC tomorrow, 2014-07-14.  So you
> have until then to voice your suggestions.
>
> /M
>
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