#14495: Relocatable GHC -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: bgamari | Owner: angerman Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.4.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 8.2.1 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Old description:
Moritz Angerman has recently been working on [[https://github.com/snowleopard/hadrian/pull/445|enabling]] relocatable builds of GHC in Hadrian. This will enable a user to extract a bindist anywhere in their file system and expect it to work. Moreover, it should simplify our installation procedure
New description: Moritz Angerman has recently been working on [[https://github.com/snowleopard/hadrian/pull/445|enabling]] relocatable builds of GHC in Hadrian. This will enable a user to extract a bindist anywhere in their file system and expect it to work. Moreover, it should simplify our installation procedure. -- Comment (by bgamari): This will need two Cabal patches, * https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/4892 * https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/4874 -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14495#comment:2 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler