reporting my progress in building ghc 8 on latest smartos

[Compl Yue]

The reproducible logs and patches are done as I reported in another 
email, and now I can confirm the dtrace patch is the only one eligible 
to be merged, all other patches for SmartOS builds only do backporting. FYI

https://gitlab.haskell.org/complyue/smart-ghc8/blob/master/ghc-arts/ghc-8.8.2_includes_HsFFI.h.patch

And thank you again for being excellently helpful!

Cheers,

Compl


On 2020/2/4 下午10:22, Ben Gamari wrote:
> Thanks for writing this down!
>
> The dtrace patch is certainly something that we can merge as-is. Do 
> let us know if there are any other patches that you find are necessary.
>
> - Ben
>
> On February 4, 2020 6:54:48 AM EST, Compl Yue via ghc-devs 
> <ghc-devs at haskell.org> wrote:
>
>     freenode server seems in trouble for this while, and I'd like to
>     take this chance to report my progress to the mailing lists.
>
>      I'm thankful to folks at #ghc and #smartos who helped me so much
>     in this journey, especially bgamari, without his hints and
>     bleeding edge patches this won't be possible at all.
>
>     And
>     https://www.mail-archive.com/smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org/msg05016.html
>     provided the information to get me started at all.
>
>     So far what's done:
>
>         :: installed 7.6.3 -> booted 7.10.3 -> booted 8.2.2 -> booted
>     8.4.4 -> booted 8.6.5 -> booted 8.8.2
>
>     Notable issues as I remembered: (I don't remember the details
>     clearly, anyway am to redo it all over again to have everything
>     logged for reprod)
>
>       * `gmake -i` is used to build 8.2.2 to workaround the stage1 ghc
>         crash after target file generated
>
>       * 8.6.5's ghci won't start
>
>     | [root at hswander /build/ghc8]# /opt/local/ghc8.6.5/bin/ghci|||
>     ||| GHCi, version 8.6.5: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help|||
>     ||| ghc: loadArchive: Not an archive: `/usr/lib/iconv'|||
>     ||| ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)|||
>     |||   (GHC version 8.6.5 for x86_64-unknown-solaris2):|||
>     |||         loadArchive "/usr/lib/iconv": failed|||
>     ||| Please report this as a GHC bug:
>     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug|||
>
>       *   worth to mention that I needed to put "SplitSections=YES"
>         into mk/build.mk even for 8.8.2 or it'll fail, might be
>         unexpected.
>
>      And dtrace compiler on latest SmartOS don't support C++ style
>     line comment, so I applied this patch to 8.8.2
>     https://gitlab.haskell.org/snippets/1549
>
>
>     Meanwhile I'm starting a fresh smartos vm to repeat (and log) all
>     steps to make sure others and future me can follow such a
>     reproducible procedure to build later versions.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Compl
>
>
>
> -- 
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. 
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