From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject: Re: GHC on OpenBSD/arm64 -> retguard fail?
To: Greg Steuck <gnezdo@openbsd.org>
Cc: حبيب محمد الأمين محمد الهادي <ha.alamin@gmail.com>,  ports@openbsd.org
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:14:29 +0000

On 2024/11/17 19:47, Greg Steuck wrote:
> <ha.alamin@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > My bad, looks like those references do have something to do with it.
> >
> > I made some more changes to the cross-build script, and tried again,
> > and the result was that the sysroot shows up in the linker's -L args
> > when compiling with that GHC, then stops showing up after removing
> > those references from the package.conf.d files for ghc-internal and
> > running ghc-pkg recache, then shows up with a new library directory if I
> > manually add it to the conf file and recache again.
> 
> To be honest, I'm focusing on putting together a monster of a hack
> environment on arm64 by cross-compiling just enough stuff. I suspect
> polishing the cross-build flow is too much trouble for one use that we
> need to happen. The next one is likely to be RISCV whenever this is.

Reminder that opaque FILE has not happened yet, we may possibly need
some cross-compile-like scaffolding to deal with that..