21 Aug
2006
21 Aug
'06
1:30 p.m.
Hello Simon, Monday, August 21, 2006, 8:03:41 PM, you wrote:
I'm not sure I understand this. How do you guys work then? Do you always build ghc 6.5 using ghc 6.4?
Sure.
What about the time-honored technique of bootstrapping using yourself?
You can do that of course, but it has to be the *exact same compiler*. That is, not one you built from last week's sources. It's just not practical to support building GHC with any GHC that existed at any point in the past, we'd have #ifdefs up the wazoo and a testing nightmare.
btw, it's not obvious on first look, nor mentioned in building docs. i propose to add your comment there -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com