20 Apr
2017
20 Apr
'17
11:29 p.m.
Dear friends, I’m currently exploring the possibility to build two versions of base similar to how we build various ways of the rts. The reasons for doing this won’t add much to the discussion. Reading https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Architecture/Idiom/Cabal I find the following:
For the GHC build system we need to extract that metadata and use it to build the package.
which leaves me wondering why that is? Initially I expected we’d just shell out and let cabal do the configuration and building of .cabal’ised packages. But it seems to be the case that we sidestep cabal for building ghc. Can someone shed some light on the reasoning behind this? Cheers, Moritz