On 2014-12-09 at 23:47:01 +0100, Greg Weber wrote:
I added documentation to https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Linux and linked from https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/MacOSX
Btw, you write
This way you can still hack on GHC with Emacs, etc, but you are just building from the docker container.
...does that mean you can't invoke `make` directly from within Emacs via `M-x haskell-compile`? I'm still trying to understand what you meant exactly by "too high an overhead to getting started" with GHC development (as I don't consider having to basically `apt-get install ...` (and possibly `cabal install ...` if your distribution doesn't have a recent alex/happy package) such a high overhead to get your system able to compile a cloned GHC source tree) So I'd like to identify what you consider an overhead to improve the underlying issues to make it easier for interested parties to get up and running with GHC development. Cheers, hvr