cannot install ghc on armhf

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Step to reproduce:

pbuilder-dist sid armhf login

apt-get install libghc-random-dev

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  binfmt-support ghc init-system-helpers libbsd-dev libbsd0 libffi-dev libffi6 libgmp-dev libgmpxx4ldbl libllvm3.3 libpipeline1 llvm llvm-3.3
  llvm-3.3-runtime llvm-runtime
Suggested packages:
  ghc-prof ghc-doc haskell-doc libghc-random-doc libghc-random-prof libgmp10-doc libmpfr-dev llvm-3.3-doc
Recommended packages:
  llvm-3.3-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  binfmt-support ghc init-system-helpers libbsd-dev libbsd0 libffi-dev libffi6 libghc-random-dev libgmp-dev libgmpxx4ldbl libllvm3.3 libpipeline1
  llvm llvm-3.3 llvm-3.3-runtime llvm-runtime
0 upgraded, 16 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 29.5 MB/37.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 255 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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0% [Working]qemu: Unsupported syscall: 374
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid/main ghc armhf 7.6.3-13 [29.1 MB]
Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid/main libghc-random-dev armhf 1.0.1.1-3 [399 kB]
Fetched 29.5 MB in 14min 32s (33.8 kB/s)
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
Selecting previously unselected package libpipeline1:armhf.
(Reading database ... 12109 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libpipeline1_1.3.0-1_armhf.deb ...
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Selecting previously unselected package libllvm3.3:armhf.
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Setting up libpipeline1:armhf (1.3.0-1) ...
Setting up libbsd0:armhf (0.6.0-2) ...
Setting up libffi6:armhf (3.1-2) ...
Setting up libgmpxx4ldbl:armhf (2:6.0.0+dfsg-4) ...
Setting up libllvm3.3:armhf (1:3.3-16) ...
Setting up init-system-helpers (1.19) ...
Setting up binfmt-support (2.1.4-1) ...
invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of start.
Setting up libbsd-dev (0.6.0-2) ...
Setting up libffi-dev:armhf (3.1-2) ...
Setting up libgmp-dev:armhf (2:6.0.0+dfsg-4) ...
Setting up llvm-3.3-runtime (1:3.3-16) ...
Setting up llvm-runtime (1:3.3-21+nmu1) ...
Setting up llvm-3.3 (1:3.3-16) ...
Setting up llvm (1:3.3-21+nmu1) ...
Setting up ghc (7.6.3-13) ...
qemu: Unsupported syscall: 257
ghc: timer_create: Function not implemented
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/ghc to provide /usr/bin/haskell-compiler (haskell-compiler) in auto mode
qemu: Unsupported syscall: 257
ghc-pkg: timer_create: Function not implemented
dpkg: error processing package ghc (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libghc-random-dev:
 libghc-random-dev depends on libghc-base-dev-4.6.0.1-96bf6; however:
  Package libghc-base-dev-4.6.0.1-96bf6 is not installed.
  Package ghc which provides libghc-base-dev-4.6.0.1-96bf6 is not configured yet.
 libghc-random-dev depends on libghc-time-dev-1.4.0.1-97076; however:
  Package libghc-time-dev-1.4.0.1-97076 is not installed.
  Package ghc which provides libghc-time-dev-1.4.0.1-97076 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package libghc-random-dev (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ghc
 libghc-random-dev

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

it was probably a transition issue in haskell itself.