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Hi Adrian,
I am currently trying to rebuild Fedora 15 on ppc
Awesome, thanks!!
and the ghc build fails with:
fatal error: ffi.h: No such file or directory
I am not really sure why it is failing. We do have a patch in rawhide now to use system libffi, though I can't see any obvious reason why it shouldn't work on ppc. Anyway you could try build with "%bcond_with libffi" instead to see if that makes any difference. Unfortunately Linux ppc is largely unsupported upstream (at least untested AFAIK). I am not sure if anyone has built ghc7 yet on Linux ppc.
If you can get me access to a rawhide ppc box I can try to help with getting ghc to build on ppc again. (Though I confess it was a bit of a relief as ghc package maintainer to be honest when Fedora dropped ppc as a primary arch...:)
Jens
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