Setting Up a OpenBSD System for Building GHC Wiki Page

[Adam Steen]

Hi Sean

The more people using OpenBSD and GHC the better, please add as much
information as you think necessary.

Cheers
Adam

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Sean Westfall <sean.westfall at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Adam Steen,
> I just chatted with you on
> https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/416, I just added so more
> info for the wxallowed step to your wiki page -- hope you don't mind. I'm
> gonna post something to this mailing list in a minute about the trouble I've
> been having with building GHC on openBSD 6.0.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
>
> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 8:04 PM, Adam Steen <adam at adamsteen.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> Good Morning All
>>
>> Thanks for the replies
>>
>> @Karel
>> After more testing it looks like i can remove the python business.
>>
>> @Sergei and @Karel
>> libiconv is a prerequisite of ghc and is installed automatically, do
>> you think this should be explicit?
>>
>> @Matthias
>> I will have to have a read about branches and will update the wiki
>> shortly.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Adam
>>
>> On 6 April 2017 at 04:38, Matthias Kilian <kili at outback.escape.de> wrote:
>> > Hi Adam,
>> >
>> > On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 03:39:18PM +0800, Adam Steen wrote:
>> >> I have created the Building/Preparation/OpenBSD Wiki Page, i have not
>> >> yet
>> >> link it to Building/Preparation
>> >> <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation> page yet,
>> >> but
>> >> am looking for a review
>> >>
>> >> Setting Up a OpenBSD System for Building GHC
>> >> <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/OpenBSD>
>> >
>> > Nice to see that some people actively work on ghc on OpenBSD (and
>> > apologies for me beeing such a slacker keeping the ghc package for
>> > OpenBSD up to date).
>> >
>> > FWIW, you don't have to pass the very exact package name to pkg_add,
>> > like 'autoconf-2.69p2' or ''automake-1.15p0'. There's a relatively new
>> > concept in pkg_tools called 'branches' (see pkg_add(1) manpage).
>> >
>> > You just have to replace the '-' separating the stem and the version by
>> > a '%', e.g.
>> >
>> >         pkg_add autoconf%2.69 automake%1.15
>> >
>> > Then you'll get autoconf-2.69 and aotmake-1.15 regardless of what's the
>> > current REVISION (aka package patchleve) ot the package.
>> >
>> > Ciao,
>> >         Kili
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 4:38 AM, Matthias Kilian <kili at outback.escape.de>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi Adam,
>> >
>> > On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 03:39:18PM +0800, Adam Steen wrote:
>> >> I have created the Building/Preparation/OpenBSD Wiki Page, i have not
>> >> yet
>> >> link it to Building/Preparation
>> >> <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation> page yet,
>> >> but
>> >> am looking for a review
>> >>
>> >> Setting Up a OpenBSD System for Building GHC
>> >> <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/OpenBSD>
>> >
>> > Nice to see that some people actively work on ghc on OpenBSD (and
>> > apologies for me beeing such a slacker keeping the ghc package for
>> > OpenBSD up to date).
>> >
>> > FWIW, you don't have to pass the very exact package name to pkg_add,
>> > like 'autoconf-2.69p2' or ''automake-1.15p0'. There's a relatively new
>> > concept in pkg_tools called 'branches' (see pkg_add(1) manpage).
>> >
>> > You just have to replace the '-' separating the stem and the version by
>> > a '%', e.g.
>> >
>> >         pkg_add autoconf%2.69 automake%1.15
>> >
>> > Then you'll get autoconf-2.69 and aotmake-1.15 regardless of what's the
>> > current REVISION (aka package patchleve) ot the package.
>> >
>> > Ciao,
>> >         Kili
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