Re: ghc and current aarch64

[Clay Daniels <clays.shell%sdf.org@localhost>]

On 11/19/22 12:25, nia wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 04:07:38PM +0000, adr wrote:
> > Right now the bootstrap compiler is built in netbsd-8, so it depends
> > on emulators/compat80, which isn't available to aarch64. So in
> > current (and I suppose 9 too) you'll end up with:
> >
> > /usr/pkgsrc/lang/ghc92/work/.tools/lib/ghc-9.2.1/bin/ghc-pkg: Shared object "libcurses.so.8" not found
> >
> > Has someone crosscompiled a bootstrap compiler for haskell in current
> > or netbsd-9?
> >
> > Regards,
> > adr.
> If you install emulators/compat90 you will get libcurses.so.8.
>
> The aarch64 bootstrap will be built for netbsd-9.
> aarch64 netbsd-8 doesn't make sense because that never existed.

Thanks for the clue. compat90 has other libs like libterminfo that I 
have been missing in 9.99.106 for the last week or so. I had given up 
and loaded the 9.3 release, which I will say is really good. But I can't 
seem to give up current, it's some kind of odd addiction...

Clay (bootdog)