Re: Debugging missing architecture support

[Efraim Flashner]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 11:29:55AM +0100, Konrad Hinsen wrote:
> Hi Saku,
> 
> > Maybe someone else can give more general or Guix specific advice on
> > finding out the cause of such problems, but I believe that in this case
> > the fix would just be packaging GHC for aarch64-linux. It should[1] be
> > possible but it will require some work.
> >
> > [1]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/platforms
> 
> Thanks for the pointer! It looks indeed like GHC already support
> aarch64, so it's just a matter of integrating that support into Guix.
> I'll see if I can find someone motivated and competent to do that.

I've been carrying around this diff for a while but I don't think I'm
currently ready to finish it off. It adds aarch64 and armhf bootstrap
binaries for GHC and gets started on the path to building ghc-8.6 with
them.

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