Highlights of this release are:
* new optimisations, in particular for affine functions in matches;
* the graphics library was moved out of the main distribution;
* the vmthread library was removed;
* support for compiler plugins was removed;
* many bug fixes.
For more details see the Changes file in the distribution.
Having nls enabled on some platforms and not on others doesn't make sense
since the code for doing that didn't provide any rationale. If some
platforms don't support nls, it's better to blacklist them explicitly.
I did a preliminary bulk build to find build failures resulting from this
change and fixed the fallout in www/grafana. Everything else seemed to be
ok.
This allows to install gcc9 with all its PKG_OPTIONS disabled. This still
installs the C++ compiler. The C++ include files end up in the private
directory though.
The PLISTs differ a lot between the platforms. For gathering the initial
data it is easier to just list the files per platform than trying to get
all the conditions right in the first place.
There will be conditions for operating systems, for platforms, for
features, for version-specific include files to be fixed, for installed
programming languages, for nls, and several more.
GHC: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
The Glasgow Haskell Compiler is a robust, fully-featured, optimising
compiler for the functional programming language Haskell 98
(http://www.haskell.org). GHC compiles Haskell to either native code
or C. It implements numerous experimental language extensions to
Haskell, including concurrency, a foreign language interface, several
type-system extensions, exceptions, and so on. GHC comes with a
generational garbage collector, a space and time profiler, and a
comprehensive set of libraries.
This package provides the 8.8.x release series.
Version 12.14.1 'Erbium' (LTS):
Notable changes
* crypto: fix key requirements in asymmetric cipher
* deps:
- update llhttp to 2.0.1
- update nghttp2 to 1.40.0
* v8: mark serdes API as stable
3.6.2:
Yet again the focus has been on just fixing bugs, mostly geared in the
later 3.x range. To get some sense what sill needs fixing, consult
test/stdlib/runtests.sh. And that only has a portion of what's known.
make_function.py has gotten so complex that it was split out into 3 parts
to handle different version ranges: Python <3, Python 3.0..3.6 and Python 3.7+.
An important fix is that we had been dropping docstrings in Python 3 code as a result
of a incomplete merge from the decompile3 base with respect to the transform phase.
Also important (at least to me) is that we can now handle 3.6+
variable type annotations. Some of the decompile3 code uses that in
its source code, and I now use variable annotations in conjunction
with mypy in some of my other Python projects
Code generation for imports, especially where the import is dotted
changed a bit in 3.7; with this release are just now tracking that
change better. For this I've added pseudo instruction
IMPORT_NAME_ATTR, derived from the IMPORT_NAME instruction, to
indicate when an import contains a dotted import. Similarly, code for
3.7 import .. as is basically the same as from .. import, the
only difference is the target of the name changes to an "alias" in the
former. As a result, the disambiguation is now done on the semantic
action side, rathero than in parsing grammar rules.
Some small specific fixes:
3.7+ some chained compare parsing has been fixed. Other remain.
better if/else rule checking in the 3.4 and below range.
3.4+ keyword-only parameter handling was fixed more generally
3.3 .. 3.5 keyword-only parameter args in lambda was fixed
This retires an old "optimisation" that over time has created more
problems than it solved, including various questions from users about
the ignored patch failures.
GHC: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
The Glasgow Haskell Compiler is a robust, fully-featured, optimising
compiler for the functional programming language Haskell 98
(http://www.haskell.org). GHC compiles Haskell to either native code
or C. It implements numerous experimental language extensions to
Haskell, including concurrency, a foreign language interface, several
type-system extensions, exceptions, and so on. GHC comes with a
generational garbage collector, a space and time profiler, and a
comprehensive set of libraries.
This package provides the 8.4.x release series, which is the last
version that can bootstrap with 8.0.2. It will probably be removed
once we make a separate package for GHC 8.8.x and get enough bootstrap
kits for it.
The GNU Compiler Collection includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C,
Fortran, Ada, Go, and D, as well as libraries for these languages
(libstdc++,...).
This is the 2019 version, initially released in April 2019.
pkgsrc-specific changes to lang/gcc8:
The PLIST file is fixed, to guarantee that all expected files are
installed properly. In lang/gcc8 it had been autogenerated.
Only those patches have been kept that were strictly necessary to build
GCC on NetBSD-amd64. The others may be added from lang/gcc8 as necessary.
Tested by bootstrapping pkgsrc using CC=$PREFIX/gcc9/bin/gcc.
