Re: Removing packages without DESTDIR support

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2013-10-25 at 07:47 BST, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 04:37:37AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> > I am fixing nhc98; there's an upstream update with destdir support.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> > We need to Do Something(TM) about ghc -- I'm still not sure what but
> > I guess I'd better see to it, as I'm using it right now. With any luck
> > that will allow fixing the other Haskell packages (darcs, wxhaskell).
> > I'm adding kristerw explicitly in the hopes that he has something to
> > say.
> 
> There's a wip package for ghc which doesn't set rpaths correctly and
> creates the PLIST dynamically (don't do that), but is perhaps a better
> base than starting from scratch.

FWIW we are using wip/ghc in our official builds now, with a few diffs:

  
https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc-wip/compare/master...joyent#diff-6fd4e83bc04fcaecd4db8649edc3a8e9L3

It would be great for *BSD folks to bring their bootstraps up to date
so we can merge this.

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