Haskell Stack Ports on Apple Silicon

[Ryan Schmidt]

The stack port's +prebuilt variant installs a prebuilt binary of a particular architecture or architectures. In that variant, the port must declare using supported_archs what the architectures of that prebuilt binary are.


> On Aug 13, 2021, at 07:59, Christopher Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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> That line is indeed limiting support to intel machines. If it works on arm add that to the list, or probably better just remove it and rely on the defaults.
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> Chris
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>> On 13 Aug 2021, at 1:55 pm, Steven Smith <steve.t.smith at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Is this line in the stack Portfile the issue? Ports (like pandoc) that are built using stack depend on the stack port, and port stack says that x86_64 is supported, but not arm64. However, stack installs and runs just fine on an M1 box.
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>>> supported_archs     x86_64
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>> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/4cccce94528cf34ba0ac86ee26d8f33b43351214/lang/stack/Portfile#L31
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>>> On Aug 13, 2021, at 5:27 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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>>> As far as I could tell, this applies to individual ports, but not to a port's dependencies. See:
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>>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/63092
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