I've updated the configure script to download the mingw distribution on the
fly (D339 https://phabricator.haskell.org/D339, #9218
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9218). I could use some help with
a few things:
1. Validating the update to gcc 4.8.3. I tried to run the tests and got
some failures, but I am not sure if they indicate problems with gcc or it's
just noise.
2. Some general testing of the updated configure script.
3. Testing the build process on a 32-bit platform.
4. Setup of a local mirror of the distribution files on haskell.org.
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: I think the potential difficulty is (1). Maybe they take it down (e.g. On 2014-10-13 at 10:57:10 +0200, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
they move on to version X so they take down old version Y). An alternative would be to stash a copy somewhere on GHC’s main web
server, and wget that. I’d be more comfortable doing that; less
dependence on others. I guess storing a copy somewhere on https://ghc.haskell.org/ should be
ok (I'm hoping Austin may weigh in wrt CDN-related considerations). I'd
suggest using it as a fallback location though. I.e. try downloading
from the official upstream location, and if that fails (either due to
I/O errors and/or unexpected checksum), fallback to using our locally
mirrored copy. However, we may need to take into account license issues,
such as hosting the source-code as well, if we host binary distributions
depending on the licenses involved (I'm not sure if this was ever
considered for ghc-tarballs.git to begin with) Cheers,
hvr --
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