#9832: Get rid of PERL dependency of `ghc-split` -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: hvr | Owner: Phyx- Type: task | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: 7.12.1 Component: Driver | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: perl Operating System: Windows | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Changes (by thomie): * cc: simonmar (added) Comment:
Ended up inlining one of the PCRE bindings since rewriting this without Perl Regex would have ended up in something a lot bigger and complexer.
I [https://github.com/Mistuke/ghc/tree/trac-9832-replace-split-perl- script-with-haskell noticed] that this adds 30.000 lines of C and 1700 lines of Haskell. Not sure if that's any better than just bundling Perl on Windows + a 300 line Perl script. What is the problem we're trying so solve here? If it's binary size: we've been shipping Python and fortran compilers as well, maybe start with stripping those (#9014). Perhaps we can get rid of split-objs completely? I found the following quote by @simonmar in SharedLibraries: "Shared libs also completely eliminates the need for the “split objs” hack that GHC uses to reduce the size of statically linked programs. This should make our link times a bit quicker." -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9832#comment:12 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler