• Elaborate the documentation a bit.
• Use <replaceable> tag.

Address comments.

@mat I've addressed all your comments. Please take another look.

This can be closed, I guess.

The question about net/luasocket stays open.

• Use option helpers for UIQT.

Depend on py-tabulate.

Remove python3 dependency, use python:3.5+.

• Get rid of INSTALL_PORTDATA and INSTALL_PORTEXAMPLES knobs.

• Fix cabal helpers in bsd.options.mk.

It turned out that

• Use = when setting DISTFILES instead of ?=.
• Move cabal option helpers to bsd.options.mk.

• Use _USES_extract to run post-extract target.

Address comments.

• Mark old hs-* ports that were affected by the overhaul as BROKEN.

• Update textproc/hs-pandoc to 2.7.1.
• Run indent_make_if.pl script over Mk/Uses/cabal.mk.

@mikael.urankar_gmail.com Why didn't you update distinfo for lang/ghc862?

• Add https variants of Hackage MASTER_SITES.

• Remove cabal-install from bsd.hackage.mk.

I took a look at cabal-install and it seem to have a bootstrap script that would allow building it without old bsd.cabal.mk stuff. So, I'll follow second way and try to hack hs-cabal-install and hs-xmonad ports to make them "standalone".

It just came to my mind that we have 2 special ports - x11-wm/hs-xmonad and devel/hs-cabal-install itself. The new-cabal machinery can't be used for them right away, because in case of XMonad we have to install it as library, and in case of cabal-install we are in egg-and-chicken situation.

In D19244#419638, @tcberner wrote:

@arrowd, what date do you think is realistic for the overhaul to take place?

Bring IGNORE= line back to its place, because checking for OSVERSION at the
top requires including bsd.port.pre.mk, but it should be included after all
other variables are set.

In D18886#415682, @linimon wrote:

You seem to have forgotten adjusting ONLY_FOR_ARCHS :-)

Final fix.

Fix condition.

In D19244#414496, @tcberner wrote:

In D19244#414408, @arrowd wrote:

I'm not going to mark 500 ports as deprecated manually, nor I want to write/search for a script to do that. I'll just let them decay naturally, then.

I can write you a script.

I want to note that this Diff was about adding powerpc64 support to lang/ghc. It is seems to be moving into "refactor bsd.ghc.mk" direction now. I admit there is much to be done here, but it can be done iteratively and later.

Simplify checks.

I'm not going to mark 500 ports as deprecated manually, nor I want to write/search for a script to do that. I'll just let them decay naturally, then.

Rework ONLY_FOR_ARCHS handling.

In D19244#413471, @rene wrote:

That still leaves the question of *why* Haskell applications will be linked statically unanswered.

We have 546 haskell ports, and only 37 of them aren't getting deprecated. You want me to add a variable to 509 ports instead of 37? What's the problem with adding and then removing a variable?

• Update to 2.9.6980.
• Incorporate changes by @rigoletto
• Address comments

Are you going to commit this, or want me to do that?

Tried this out on rel12x86, works nice.

• Unbreak stack and update it to 1.9.3.