[GHC] #8746: Crosscompiling

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#8746: Crosscompiling
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        Reporter:  Visionstar        |            Owner:
            Type:  bug               |           Status:  new
        Priority:  high              |        Milestone:  7.8.2
       Component:  Compiler          |          Version:  7.8.1-rc1
      Resolution:                    |         Keywords:  Crosscompile
Operating System:  Linux             |  cross compile failed ncurses
 Type of failure:  Building GHC      |  setupterm not found
  failed                             |     Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
       Test Case:                    |       Difficulty:  Unknown
        Blocking:                    |       Blocked By:
                                     |  Related Tickets:
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Changes (by thoughtpolice):

 * milestone:  7.8.1 => 7.8.2


Comment:

 Oh dear. If I remember correctly, the problem is that we sort of work-
 arounded it by commenting out `terminfo` for the Raspberry Pi cross
 compilers, but never found a real solution. It should be disabled, really
 (terminfo is only needed by haskeline, and haskeline is only needed by
 GHCi - which doesn't exist in a cross compilers.) One solution is just
 commenting out `terminfo` and `haskeline` from `ghc.mk`, I believe?

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