4 Feb
2008
4 Feb
'08
3:08 p.m.
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:18:01PM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
Porting is "simply broken" for various reasons at the moment - in particular the switch to Cabal for building the libraries broke it. We knew this at the time, but felt it was more important to make the switch now and fix bootstrapping later.
Be prepared: I'll send some comments and (probably silly) questions on cvs-ghc@ in a few minutes ;-)
For pwd, I imagine the best way forward is to use a C program, I don't think there are any deep issues there.
Unless some windows people have the time to step in and help make it work with simple shell stuff, some C helpers would be just fine. Ciao, Kili