[GHC DevOps Group] Fwd: FreeBSD in Tier 1

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

[RESENT MESSAGE — see https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devops-group/2017-October/000004.html]

> From: Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com>
> Subject: Aw: [GHC DevOps Group] FreeBSD in Tier 1
> Date: 10. Oktober 2017 um 02:03:32 GMT+11
> To: Manuel M T Chakravarty <manuel.chakravarty at tweag.io>, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com>
> Cc: ghc-devops-group at haskell.org, Pali Gabor Janos <pali.gabor at gmail.com>
> 
> Manuel M T Chakravarty <manuel.chakravarty at tweag.io> writes:
> 
>> According to 
>> 
>>  https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC
>>  <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC>
>> 
>> it is Páli Gábor János aka pgj whose last commit was 20 Jul 2016:
>> 
>>  https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/0df3f4cdd1dfff42461e3f5c3962f1ecd7c90652
>>  <https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/0df3f4cdd1dfff42461e3f5c3962f1ecd7c90652>
>> 
> While Páli does not contribute many patches, I can confirm that he is
> indeed active. In fact, he recently provided an explanation of the
> failure that Mathieu observed in #14300. In short, the issue is that the
> platform toolchain is buggy due to tiresome licensing issue. In my
> experience GHC builds without any trouble on FreeBSD 11, which has a
> new, less broken toolchain.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Ben

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devops-group/attachments/20171010/001edc98/attachment.html>