On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 09:32:31AM -0400, Ben Gamari wrote:
While there's no binary distribution for FreeBSD at haskell.org, as of June 30 there's a FreeBSD ghc-8.4.3 port.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/lang/ghc/Makefile?view=log
Ahh, great! Thanks for doing this. I'll try to replicate this while doing the builds for 8.6.
For the record, in case anyone gets the wrong impression, I am not one of the port maintainers (who deserve the credit for creating the port). I'm just a happy user of the port, which was upgraded from 8.4.2 to 8.4.3 on Jun 30th. No issues with either version on FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p10. My meagre contribution amounts to reporting success with: # cd /usr/ports/lang/ghc # make config # make package # pkg install work/pkg/ghc-8.4.3.txz The "make config" options include: BOOT Use installed GHC for bootstrapping which speeds up upgrade builds. -- Viktor.