2013-09-23 02:48:16 +00:00
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Made a release on Friday. But I had to rebuild the OSX and Linux standalone
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builds today to fix a bug in them.
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Spent the past **three days** redoing the whole Android build environment.
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I've been progressively moving from my first hacked up Android build env to
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something more reproducible and sane. Finally I am at the point where I can
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run a shell script (well, actually, 3 shell scripts) and get an Android
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build chroot. It's still not immune to breaking when new versions of
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haskell libs are uploaded, but this is much better, and should be
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maintainable going forward.
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This is a good starting point for getting git-annex into the F-Droid app
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store, or for trying to build with a newer version of the Android SDK and
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NDK, to perhaps get it working on Android 4.3. (Eventually. I am so sick
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of building Android stuff right now..)
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Friday was all spent struggling to get ghc-android to build. I had not built
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it successfully since February. I finally did,
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on Saturday, and I have made my own fork of it which builds using a
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known-good snapshot of the current development version of ghc. Building
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this in a Debian stable chroot means that there should be no possibility
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that upstream changes will break the build again.
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With ghc built, I moved on to building all the haskell libs git-annex
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needs. Unfortunately my build script for these also has stopped working
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since I made it in April. I failed to pin every package at a defined
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version, and things broke.
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So, I redid the build script, and updated all the haskell libs to the
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newest versions while I was at it. I have decided not to pin the library
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versions (at least until I find a foolproof way to do it), so this new
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script will break in the future, but it should break in a way I can fix up
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easily by just refreshing a patch.
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The new ghc-android build has a nice feature of at least being able to
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compile Template Haskell code (though still not run it at compile time.
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This made the patching needed in the Haskell libs quite a lot less. Offset
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somewhat by me needing to make general fixes to lots of libs to build with
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ghc head. Including some fun with `==#` changing its type from `Bool` to
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`Int#`. In all, I think I removed around 2.5 thousand lines of patches!
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(Only 6 thousand lines to go...)
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Today I improved ghc-android some more so it cross builds several C libraries
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that are needed to build several haskell libraries needed for XMPP.
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I had only ever built those once, and done it by hand, and very hackishly.
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Now they all build automatically too.
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And, I put together a script that builds the debian stable chroot and
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installs ghc-android.
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And, I hacked on the EvilSplicer (which is sadly still needed) to
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work with the new ghc/yesod/etc.
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2013-09-23 03:01:08 +00:00
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At this point, I have git-annex successfully building, including the APK!
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2013-09-23 02:48:16 +00:00
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----
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In a bored hour waiting for a compile, I also sped up `git annex add`
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on OSX by I think a factor of 10. Using cryptohash for hash calculation
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now, when external hash programs are not available. It's still a few
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percentage points slower than external hash programs, or I'd use it by
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default.
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----
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This period of important drudgery was sponsored by an unknown bitcoin
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user, and by Bradley Unterrheiner and Andreas Olsson.
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