Bug#1099208: RM: haskell-gi-gtk [armel armhf] -- ROM; FTBFS due to GHC bug

[Ilias Tsitsimpis]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
Tags: ftbfs
X-Debbugs-Cc: haskell-gi-***@packages.debian.org, debian-***@lists.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:haskell-gi-gtk
User: ***@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
User: debian-***@lists.debian.org
Usertags: armel armhf

Please remove haskell-gi-gtk from armel and armhf. It FTBFS, probably
due to a GHC bug on these architectures.

Thanks,

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Post by Ilias Tsitsimpis
Please remove haskell-gi-gtk from armel and armhf. It FTBFS, probably
due to a GHC bug on these architectures.

Can you try disabling binutils-gold for armhf and armel?

It's still explicitly enabled and I think that's flawed given the fact
that binutils-gold is completely unmaintained upstream. It will introduce
all kinds of random bugs.

Adrian

[Ilias Tsitsimpis]

Hi Adrian,

Post by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz

Post by Ilias Tsitsimpis
Please remove haskell-gi-gtk from armel and armhf. It FTBFS, probably
due to a GHC bug on these architectures.

Can you try disabling binutils-gold for armhf and armel?
It's still explicitly enabled and I think that's flawed given the fact
that binutils-gold is completely unmaintained upstream. It will introduce
all kinds of random bugs.

We explicitly enable gold on armhf and armel because BFD doesn't work on
these architectures. Here is the upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16177

GHC checks for this bug at build time:

https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/blob/3a18c0fa2edcd61b0c3b470661791b09501c4c2b/m4/check_ld_copy_bug.m4

The debian/rules file for GHC also explains why we still use the gold
linker on armhf and armel:

https://salsa.debian.org/haskell-team/DHG_packages/-/blob/0e0c337b7b0617688ff6d8a7731bb1edd954b427/p/ghc/debian/rules#L65

Until this is fixed, we need to stick to gold.