Re: Circular dependency between the compiler and TH?

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

Hello Simon,

Monday, August 21, 2006, 8:03:41 PM, you wrote:

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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

Strange, I did think it was documented, but I can't find it. Thanks for pointing it out, I'll add something to the docs. Cheers, Simon