test build of current ghc-7.8

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 04.02.2014, 09:03 +0000 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> Am Dienstag, den 04.02.2014, 09:52 +0900 schrieb Jens Petersen:
> 
> >         Am Montag, den 03.02.2014, 19:49 +0900 schrieb Jens Petersen:
> >         > Hi, I did a test build [1] of the current ghc-7.8 branch for
> >         Fedora 21
> >         > devel, which I think should also install to Fedora 20.
> >         
> >         
> >         I’m surprised that it worked for you. Did not you not hit
> >         http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8725?
> > 
> > 
> > Does that also affect 7.8?  I see the report is for a 7.9 snapshot. 
> 
> yes, 7.9 and 7.8 are not so different yet. But I think I’ll resolve this
> by making the Debian directory structure a bit more standard; much
> easier than hacking the build system.

different issue: It seems that "hpc" is build dynamically, but installed
to the binpath (/usr/bin) instead of ghclibdir (/usr/lib/ghc/bin), so
the linking against the haskell library via rpath does not work. I had
to apply

$ cat patches/hpc-wrapper 
Index: ghc-7.9.20140130/utils/hpc/ghc.mk
===================================================================
--- ghc-7.9.20140130.orig/utils/hpc/ghc.mk	2014-01-31 17:28:32.000000000 +0000
+++ ghc-7.9.20140130/utils/hpc/ghc.mk	2014-02-04 23:15:53.000000000 +0000
@@ -15,4 +15,7 @@
 utils/hpc_dist-install_INSTALL         = YES
 utils/hpc_dist-install_INSTALL_INPLACE = YES
 utils/hpc_dist-install_PROGNAME        = hpc
+utils/hpc_dist-install_SHELL_WRAPPER   = YES
+utils/hpc_dist-install_INSTALL_SHELL_WRAPPER_NAME = hpc
+
 $(eval $(call build-prog,utils/hpc,dist-install,1))
Index: ghc-7.9.20140130/utils/hpc/hpc.wrapper
===================================================================
--- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ ghc-7.9.20140130/utils/hpc/hpc.wrapper	2014-02-04 23:17:49.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+exec "$executablename" ${1+"$@"}


Jens, how does that work in the Fedora package?

Greetings,
Joachim

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