[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#640088: FTBFS on arches without ghci: Cant do annotations without GHCi

[Joachim Breitner]

Source: haskell-vector
Version: 0.9-1
Severity: serious
Forwarded: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4268

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Hi,

the new version of haskell-vector uses annotations, which are not
supported by ghc on architectures without the interpreter (ghci).
Possible solutions are:

 * Build-Depend on ghc-ghci and remove existing packages of this and of
   dependencies from the affected architectures.
 * Add some CPP-Magic to the package to disable the annotation on other
   architectures.
 * Hope that upstream fixes
   http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4268, e.g. ignores
   annotations when no ghci is available.

In general it seems that the Haskell support for non-x86-architectures
is getting worse and worse :-(

Greetings,
Joachim


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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