Offering GHC builder build slaves

[Alain O'Dea]

> On Apr 9, 2014, at 8:36, Karel Gardas <karel.gardas at centrum.cz> wrote:
> 
>> On 04/ 9/14 03:41 AM, Alain O'Dea wrote:
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>>> On 14-04-08 08:17 PM, Karel Gardas wrote:
>>>> On 04/ 8/14 03:16 PM, Alain O'Dea wrote:
>>>> The two build slaves I intend to run are: - x86_64 Solaris (on
>>>> SmartOS)
>>> 
>>> Please name it smartos-x86 then. I'm running real Solaris 11.1 as
>>> a builder here so let's make it different name builder and see if
>>> there are any incompatibilities between those two (I hope still
>>> very close) platforms.
>>> 
>>> BTW: what's your platform triple detected by config.guess?
>>> 
>>> Thanks! Karel
>> 
>> Hi Karel,
>> 
>> My platform triple detected by config.guess is:
>> x86_64-unknown-solaris2
>> 
>> I got that by running `cat config.status | grep TargetPlatformFull`.
> 
> Hi Alain,
> 
> hmm, that's after GHC own platform processing is done, but what does
> 
> sh config.guess
> 
> tells you? E.g. on my two Solaris 11 I get:
> 
> $ sh config.guess
> i386-pc-solaris2.11
> 
> $ sh config.guess
> sparc-sun-solaris2.11

Ah.  I'll have to send that later today.

> BTW: also if you are building GHC on AMD64/Solaris/err/SmartOS, then I think Christian (cced) may be interested as he is currently working on cross-compiling from i386/Solaris to AMD64/Solaris and he is hit by some bugs along the way. So if you do have already binary for GHC on that, then perhaps it'll work on Solaris too...

Christian, the SmartOS GHC binaries should work unmodified on Solaris 10 and 11.  Both 32- and 64-bit GHC 7.6.3 are available in SmartOS PKGSRC.  I have successfully used them as bootstrap for GHC 7.8.  The binaries should be separable.  I can get the build details if desired.

> You may wonder why I'm so picky about Solaris, but I've just been hit on Solaris 10 by bugs (in linker) which are not presented on Solaris 11 so in the past I needed to switch off shared libs on Solaris 10 and keep this functionality on Solaris 11 so I'm curious what third member to Solaris family will bring here.

It seems SmartOS builds GHC 7.8 cleanly without patches.  There are some test failures which I'm working on.

> I hope SmartOS is still more closer to Solaris 11 than Solaris 10 thanks to its roots in OpenSolaris project...

SmartOS is an Illumos distro (like Ubuntu is to Linux).  Illumos is descended directly from the last public commit of OpenSolaris 10 (grr Oracle).

> Thanks,
> Karel