Loading stripped libHSghc fails

We really can't go through another Haskell transition (which is what uploading the new version of GHC would entail). If someone wants to apply the patch from the upstream bug to our GHC and verify it works, that would be fine though.

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I've built GHC 7.04-4 from Debian unstable and the rest of the packages of which haskell-platform depends in a PPA: https://launchpad.net/~serras/+archive/ghc-from-debian-unstable This makes impossible to use the rest of libghc-* libraries already packaged in Ubuntu, but the developer may use "cabal install" to get them in the system.

It would be nice(r) if you would take that specific patch and post a patch to this bug for an updated /Ubuntu/ package for us.

I could then sponsor it into Oneiric.

Otherwise I will hopefully get round to this in the next couple of weeks.

The only thing I did was taking the package from Debian unstable and rebuilding all the things that depended on it.
So the best idea, I think, would be unfreezing the packages ghc, haskell-platform, cabal, alex, happy, cpphs and all the libghc- ones and reimport it from Debian unstable.
I'm willing to help to get this solved :D

On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 09:04:03PM -0000, Alejandro Serrano wrote:
> The only thing I did was taking the package from Debian unstable and rebuilding all the things that depended on it.
> So the best idea, I think, would be unfreezing the packages ghc, haskell-platform, cabal, alex, happy, cpphs and all the libghc- ones and reimport it from Debian unstable.
> I'm willing to help to get this solved :D

That will mean rebuilding /all/ 200+ Haskell packages in the correct order,
something which I've already done twice this cycle and don't really want
to do it again, I'm afraid.

I know. It was horrible to just get built the packages for the PPA. I don't want to imagine how that would be with the entire set of packages.

I am building an updated package now.

Fixed. Upload coming up.

  (oneiric-amd64)root@raleigh:/srv/home/laney/temp# ghci
  GHCi, version 7.0.3: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help
  Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
  Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done.
  Loading package base ... linking ... done.
  Prelude> :set -package ghc
  package flags have changed, resetting and loading new packages...
  Loading package array-0.3.0.2 ... linking ... done.
  Loading package containers-0.4.0.0 ... linking ... done.
  Loading package filepath-1.2.0.0 ... linking ... done.
  Loading package old-locale-1.0.0.2 ... linking ... done.
  Loading package old-time-1.0.0.6 ... linking ... done.
  Loading package unix-2.4.2.0 ... linking ... done.
  Loading package directory-1.1.0.0 ... linking ... done.
  Loading package pretty-1.0.1.2 ... linking ... done.
  Loading package process-1.0.1.5 ... linking ... done.
  Loading package Cabal-1.10.1.0 ... linking ... done.
  Loading package bytestring-0.9.1.10 ... linking ... done.
  Loading package ghc-binary-0.5.0.2 ... linking ... done.
  Loading package bin-package-db-0.0.0.0 ... linking ... done.
  Loading package hpc-0.5.0.6 ... linking ... done.
  Loading package template-haskell ... linking ... done.
  Loading package ghc-7.0.3 ... linking ... done.
  Prelude>
  Leaving GHCi.

Uploaded to Oneiric now.