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On 10-10-2007 12:42:07 -0600, Nathan wrote: |
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> Interesting stuff. |
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> So, I've dropped out of testing prefix things for...what...a year? |
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> How are things going? Is there a place that interested parties (new |
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> users or new-old users like me) can get up to speed on the project |
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> status? Has it yet reached a quasi-stable stage? |
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I know of no other place than here ;) |
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quasi-stable... well,if you mean the number of screw-ups by me ( :p ) I |
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think those have been reduced drastically. |
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I just did a test on ppc-macos with portage 2.2.00.8084 to do a binary |
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install of ghc-6.6.1 (a package which takes 3+ hours to compile) and it |
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suceeded. For people who want to toy with it as well, here are the |
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things you need to do. |
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Add the following to your etc/make.conf: |
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PORTAGE_BINHOST=http://dev.gentooexperimental.org/~grobian/binpkg/powerpc-apple-darwin8 |
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Then try to emerge for instance this huge ghc: |
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% emerge --getbinpkg -av ghc |
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These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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Calculating dependencies... done! |
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[binary N ] dev-lang/ghc-6.6.1 USE="-binary -doc -ghcbootstrap" [1] |
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[binary N ] dev-haskell/cabal-1.1.6.2 USE="-doc -profile" [1] |
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Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 0 kB |
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Portage tree and overlays: |
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[0] /Library/Gentoo/usr/portage |
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[1] http://dev.gentooexperimental.org/~grobian/binpkg/powerpc-apple-darwin8 |
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Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] |
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Note the "binary" instead of "ebuild" on each of those two lines. |
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Currently, I uploaded powerpc-apple-darwin8 (a clean and correct repo) |
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and powerpc-apple-darwin7 (my iBook, with a bad (short) prefix, and most |
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probably some outdated packages). We're working on getting a bit nicer |
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URL, and having i386-apple-darwin8 in there! |
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On a sidenote: yes, indeed ghc compiles on ppc-macos, x86-macos and |
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x86-solaris! Need to test on sparc-solaris, but that will take some |
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extra hours ;) |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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