Re: Setting Up a OpenBSD System for Building GHC Wiki Page

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 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 wrote:

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Hi Adam,

On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 03:39:18PM +0800, Adam Steen wrote:

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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 wrote:

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Hi Adam,

On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 03:39:18PM +0800, Adam Steen wrote:

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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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