[Port Abandoned] ghc, ghc-devel

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

The ghc and ghc-devel ports are outdated by a major and several minor versions. The maintainer last commented in the tickets concerning ghc and ghc-devel 21 months ago.

The open tickets against the ghc ports currently are:

#63056

ghc: build stalls

#64689

ghc @6.10.4 configure failure on Leopard

#64698

approach to fix Haskell (GHC) for PowerPC: some progress, ghc @7.6.3 builds for ppc but there is a bug to be fixed

#65156

stack (and all of ghc) don't work on SnowLeopard, including when trying to build alex for example

#65157

ghc @9.2.2 error on 10.6.8: dyld: Symbol not found: _environ, expected in: /opt/x86_64/lib/libMacportsLegacySystem.B.dylib

#68282

ghc-prebuilt configure: error: Failed to compile test program

#68302

ghc @9.6.3: UndefinedError("'style' is undefined")

#69740

ghc-filesystem: A plan for updating to the version after 1.5.14

#70362

ghc: build failure: warning: a function declaration without a prototype is deprecated in all versions of C [-Wstrict-prototypes]

#71827

ghc @9.12.1_0 - Warning: reinplace s|@LIBRARY_ghc_VERSION@|9.12.1|g didn't change anything

#72143

ghc @9.12.1_0: build fails on 10.14.6 with 'error: C preprocessor "/usr/bin/cpp" fails sanity check'

Ticket #25558 has patches for a working version of ghc-7.4. I'm planning to commit those soon after this has been resolved.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Greg, if you want to continue maintaining the ghc and ghc-devel ports, please comment now or the ports will be reassigned to someone else.

[jean-philippe.humbert@…]

Cc Me!

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

Maintainer set to nomaintainer in r96512.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

Same for ghc-devel in r96513.