295437 – ghc-6.8.2-r1 missing binary use flag

Bug 295437 - ghc-6.8.2-r1 missing binary use flag

Summary: ghc-6.8.2-r1 missing binary use flag

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Development (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo's Haskell Language team

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Reported:	2009-12-02 13:21 UTC by Chris Henhawke
Modified:	2009-12-03 07:31 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Chris Henhawke 2009-12-02 13:21:59 UTC

Compiling ghc on one of my systems takes way too long and too much resources, which is why I was using the binary flag.  Said flag appears to be missing from the latest stable version of ghc, ghc-6.8.2-r1.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install ghc-6.8.2 with binary use flag enabled, and wait 10 minutes.
2. Upgrade to ghc-6.8.2-r1, and wait 6+ hours.

Actual Results:  
A wait that seems to be longer than an eternity.

Expected Results:  
A quick install.

Comment 1 Lennart Kolmodin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-12-02 19:38:16 UTC

Read the ChangeLog for dev-lang/ghc;

  17 Apr 2009; Lennart Kolmodin <kolmodin@gentoo.org> +ghc-6.8.2-r1.ebuild:
  Add a restricted version of ghc 6.8.2 (-r1), but that can handle
  >=sys-libs/readline-6. Previous ghc versions depends on =readline-5, which
  gives problems now that readline-6 is in the tree. To allow other readline
  versions we have bundled a precompiled readline-5 package, making the ghc 
  bootstrap process work. Thus, this also forced us to remove the USE=binary
  flag. See bug #259867.

And also, why not use ghc-6.10.4? Except for still being keyworded, it is better in every other way.

Comment 2 Chris Henhawke 2009-12-02 23:22:17 UTC

And wait two days for it to install?  I'd rather remove ghc and darcs.

Comment 3 Lennart Kolmodin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-12-03 07:31:38 UTC

If you absolutely want to, ghc-6.10.4 supports USE=binary.
So far we've got binaries for x86, amd64, sparc and ppc64.