Matthias Kilian
[including only the ghc-devs list in this reply]
Hi,
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 11:57:45AM -0500, Ben Gamari wrote:
* While we typically strive to produce OpenBSD builds, the gcc shipped with OpenBSD 6.1 is unfortunately too old to compile this release.
Well, OpenBSD 6.1 is almost dead, 6.2 is the stable release at the moment, and 6.3 will probably be released in about two months. For 6.2 the default C compiler is clang-4.0.0, for 6.3, it will be at least clang-5.0.1 (at least on i386 and amd64 platforms).
So, providing ghc binaries for 6.1 at all would be mostly pointless, anyway (there will be no support for 6.1 from the moment 6.3 has been released).
Thanks for the clarification! This is very helpful.
ps: whoever is doing binary releases of ghc for OpenBSD (I only know about Karel Gardas pushing patches from our ports tree from time to time) could use a newer gcc or clang from ports/packages if it helps. Of course, if time permits (and as the defacto maintainer of lang/ghc on OpenBSD I know how time consuming this can be ;-))
Indeed that is me. There is a bit more to the story of why we have no OpenBSD builds: In short, I don't actually have a machine running OpenBSD. Usually I spin up a virtual machine locally to produce distributions for distributions which I don't myself run. However, this time I had quite some trouble bringing up an OpenBSD VM (the installation image appeared to hang shortly after booting when running on QEmu/kvm on both Intel and AMD hardware). Lacking any way to produce a build locally, I turned to AWS, which only has an AMI for OpenBSD 6.1. Cheers, - Ben