Re: GHC 8.4.3

[Ricardo Wurmus]

宋文武 <address@hidden> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> Timothy Sample <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>
>>>>>   • There are 21 failing packages.  They are agda, beast, corrode,
>>>>>     git-annex, ghc-aws, ghc-gnuplot, ghc-haddock-test,
>>>>>     ghc-hashable-bootstrap, ghc-indents, ghc-monadplus,
>>>>>     ghc-nats-bootstrap, ghc-packedstring, ghc-regex, ghc-regex-tdfa-rc,
>>>>>     ghc-statistics, ghc-vector-builder, ghc-wave, ghc-xmonad-contrib,
>>>>>     raincat, rapicorn, and shellcheck.
>>>>
>>>> Raincat is now fixed on wip-haskell.
>>>
>>> git-annex is also fixed now.
>>
>> agda is also fixed now.
>>
>> ghc-regex has had its last release in 2017, so this is an upstream
>> problem, I think.  ghc-regex-tdfa-rc probably fails just because
>> ghc-regex cannot be built.
>>
>> ghc-monadplus was only needed for agda.  I found that version 1.3 builds
>> fine, but 1.4.x does not.
>>
>> ghc-nats-bootstrap builds fine.
>>
>> ghc-hashable-bootstrap builds fine.
>>
>> ghc-indents now builds fine (after disabling the tests).
>>
>> ghc-haddock-test is deprecated and should be removed.
>> ghc-packedstring is deprecated and should also be removed.
>>
>> This leaves ghc-aws, ghc-gnuplot, ghc-statistics, ghc-vector-builder,
>> ghc-wave, ghc-xmonad-contrib, and shellcheck.
>>
>> Any takers?
>
> Fixed 5, leaving ghc-aws and ghc-statistics (I got test fails for
> ghc-happy).

Thank you!  I just fixed ghc-aws and ghc-statistics.  I cannot reproduce
the test failure for ghc-happy.

I think we’re good to merge this.  Any objections?  If there are none
I’ll merge this branch into master tomorrow.

Thank you Tim and 宋文武!

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Ricardo