7.8.1 plan

[Luke Iannini]

Hi Austin/all,
Here's GHC iOS 7.8.1
https://github.com/ghc-ios/ghc-ios-scripts/releases/download/7.8.1-device/ghc-7.8.1-arm-apple-ios.tar.bz2
(sha 4b98f55212b33296ed9d59d7e30eaa12d7a34a3b)
https://github.com/ghc-ios/ghc-ios-scripts/releases/download/7.8.1/ghc-7.8.1-i386-apple-ios.tar.bz2
(sha bcd213b4da15f77aaa4b1b06c51867785f262002)

and README https://github.com/ghc-ios/ghc-ios-scripts/blob/master/README.md

Cheers
Luke


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com> wrote:

> Jens,
>
> It's probably due to abb86adf7f749b3d44887d28bc96b43c5a1e0631[1] which
> was merged post RC2. I base this on the fact your build is failing
> during the dynamic build. Do try a reverse patch and see if it helps.
>
> I believe Karel is right - you just need to use Gold. Ben actually had
> patches to make the build fail if using binutils ld was detected, but
> I believe I had reservations about the patch which I cannot recall off
> the top of my head. In any case, a fix like that can certainly go in
> 7.8.2.
>
> Do let us know how it goes.
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/abb86adf7f749b3d44887d28bc96b43c5a1e0631
>
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Jens Petersen
> <petersen at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > On 9 April 2014 17:53, Karel Gardas <karel.gardas at centrum.cz> wrote:
> >>
> >> Ben Gamari (cced) documented it well here:
> >> http://bgamari.github.io/posts/2014-03-06-compiling-ghc-7.8-on-arm.html
> >>
> >> Looks like the issue is caused by binutils' linker while fixed in gold.
> >
> >
> > Thanks a lot, Karel!  I will try Ben's hack later.
> >
> > I am still surprised that RC2 builds fine on ARM (I re-verified that
> > yesterday [1]) but not final 7.8.1.
> > Were there some late ARM or linking changes that cause this now?
> >
> >> On 04/ 9/14 10:21 AM, Jens Petersen wrote:
> >>>
> >>>     dll-split: internal error: evacuate(static): strange closure type 0
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>     See http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=6719940 for
> >
> >
> >>>
> >>>     I reproduced this two times now. RC2 built okay on ARM so I am not
> >>>     sure what changed.
> >
> >
> > [1]  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=6720331
> >
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