Re: ghc and current aarch64

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 04:07:38PM +0000, adr wrote:
> Right now the bootstrap compiler is built in netbsd-8, so it depends
> on emulators/compat80, which isn't available to aarch64. So in
> current (and I suppose 9 too) you'll end up with:
> 
> /usr/pkgsrc/lang/ghc92/work/.tools/lib/ghc-9.2.1/bin/ghc-pkg: Shared object "libcurses.so.8" not found
> 
> Has someone crosscompiled a bootstrap compiler for haskell in current
> or netbsd-9?
> 
> Regards,
> adr.

If you install emulators/compat90 you will get libcurses.so.8.

The aarch64 bootstrap will be built for netbsd-9.
aarch64 netbsd-8 doesn't make sense because that never existed.