CJ van den Berg

Impressive numbers! I have tried a few basic tests and it is definitely faster. Up to 30% with the craziest pixel pushing test case I tried and around 10% when...

Which distros would be most useful?

It seems to me that very few (if any) of your patches are directly related to Android. I’d much rather get the underlying issues fixed than #ifdefing everything that causes...

BTW, I nearly have a template-haskell enabled build working. Hopefully I’ll push it sometime later today. That should eliminate 90% or so of your diffs for you.

Yes, I use Arch, but I also have Ubuntu, Debian and SUSE chroots. I will probably start with an Arch package and then look at Ubuntu and Debian. The tricky...

FYI, the unix termios patch I just added to ghc-android should replace unix_2.6.0.1_0001-remove-stuff-not-available-on-Android.patch in your patch collection. Those functions aren’t missing, they’re just inlined. Although, you can probably just remove...

What license would be preferable? Can I just copy the GHC license?

Submitted: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7912

In the long run Cabal definitely needs proper cross compile support. There was some discussion on the mailing list awhile ago about it, but I don’t think anyone is actively...

It looks like the host compiler install did not complete properly. Perhaps because you ran out of disk space? Try wiping /home/jim/.ghc/android-host completely and run ./build again.