Re: ghc and current aarch64

[adr <adr%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

On Sat, 19 Nov 2022, 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.
>
> I haven't thought in using compat90 because the makefile justify
> the use of compat80 precisely with this:
>
> [...]
> # NetBSD 9.x have libcurses with a newer major version than the
> # bootstrap kit is linked against. For now, work around this with
> # compat80.
> [...]
>
> I'll give it a try.

Thanks for the help, it indeed has libcurses.so.8 and I didn't find
any other problem building ghc92. It also has libterminfo.so.1 so maybe
is better to apply this patch?

--- Makefile	2022-11-01 05:53:31.274909905 +0000
+++ /tmp/Makefile	2022-11-20 12:13:45.276048528 +0000
@@ -233,17 +233,15 @@
 BUILD_DEPENDS+=	${PYPKGPREFIX}-sphinx-[0-9]*:../../textproc/py-sphinx
 .endif

-# NetBSD 9.x have libcurses with a newer major version than the
+# NetBSD >9.0 have libcurses with a newer major version than the
 # bootstrap kit is linked against. For now, work around this with
 # compat80.
-.if !empty(MACHINE_PLATFORM:MNetBSD-*-x86_64) && ${OPSYS_VERSION} >= 090000
-BUILD_DEPENDS+=	compat80-[0-9]*:../../emulators/compat80
+.if ${OPSYS_VERSION} > 090000
+BUILD_DEPENDS+=	compat90-[0-9]*:../../emulators/compat90
 # In a sandboxed build environment, we have to reach over to the
-# installed libraries themselves, since the symlinks compat80 adds
+# installed libraries themselves, since the symlinks compat90 adds
 # to the /usr tree can't be applied.
-ALL_ENV+=	LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${PREFIX}/emul/netbsd/usr/lib:${WRKDIR}/lib
-# XXX: ${WRKDIR}/lib is a temporary workaround for compat80 not having
-# libterminfo.so.1. See ./bootstrap.mk
+ALL_ENV+=	LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${PREFIX}/emul/netbsd/usr/lib
 .endif

 # On Solaris-based platforms our bootkit tends to depend on