12 Apr
2007
12 Apr
'07
7:49 p.m.
Simon Marlow
Ah. I was about to checkin a replacement for System.Posix.Types (in base) that uses hsc2hs instead of autoconf.
Anyway, to answer your question, using hsc2hs in System.Posix.Types will cause problems for bootstrapping GHC, yes, because we can't run hsc2hs on the target without GHC, but we can run configure.
But it is only a problem for cross-compiling - yes? And no more of a problem than ghc already has? So, should I push my patch for building System.Posix.Types with nhc98 (i.e. without autoconf, with hsc2hs) or not? At the moment, the lack of System.Posix.Types is breaking the nightly builds of Cabal/nhc98. Regards, Malcolm