14 Aug
2008
14 Aug
'08
11:14 a.m.
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:35:42PM +1000, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
Rebuilding with stage1 was already needed to build GHC with a builtin readline. In general, it is a bad idea to build distributed binaries of Haskell programs with the *bootstrap compiler*. It must be done with the stage1 compiler. (If you are unsure why, I'll happily elaborate.)
No, I understand why it was necessary, I just had problems with the way it was done. Of course, it would have been possible to extend the old build system to build the two versions in separate directories, but it would have meant adding more complexity to an already-complex system. I believe that using a Cabal-based build system instead has made things simpler. Thanks Ian