Status and future of the LLVM backend

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,


Am Sonntag, den 30.11.2014, 18:49 -0500 schrieb Ben Gamari:
> > Am Sonntag, den 30.11.2014, 16:48 -0500 schrieb Ben Gamari:
> >> > What would be a reliable way to make the build system pass
> >> > -B/usr/bin/ld.gold to gcc? Is
> >> > SRC_HC_OPTS     += -optc-B/usr/bin/ld.gold
> >> > in mk/build.mk a good idea?
> >> >
> >> Indeed this is much cleaner. I just wanted a way to accomplish this
> >> without editing build.mk.
> >
> > Cleaner maybe, but it was not picked up either. Or maybe we are looking
> > at a different issue, not solved by using ld.gold?
> >
> I suspect that it this is the gold issue. I should have looked at your
> command line a bit more carefully; I suspect you want 
> 
>     SRC_HC_OPTS     += -optl-B/usr/bin/ld.gold
>     
> Hopefully this will do it; at least the option appears to make it to the
> right phase now.

Trying it right now...

> Is the Debian packaging tracked in version control somewhere? All I can
> find is the packaging tarball [1].

It’s at http://darcs.debian.org/pkg-haskell/experimental/ghc
(but due to a index.html in that directory, you cannot browse it, so you
have to "darcs get" it)

Greetings,
Joachim




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