On Wednesday 29. May 2002 17:07, you wrote:

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With the help of the excellent new guide on porting GHC (Thank you Simon!) I have just created an ebuild for GHC. I thought I'd let you know, in case you're still working on it. I don't bootstrap GHC 5 directly from HC files, but GHC 4.08.3 (as some suggested) and go on from there. I've submitted the ebuild yesterday as Bug #3092 to the Gentoo Bugzilla. Feel free to comment if you want to look at it.

Does this mean we can claim that Gentoo Linux is supported?

:) I hope it will mean that in the very near future. That is, once the ebuild is in Gentoo CVS. I'm currently waiting for that to happen, but they're probably still waiting for their compile to finish... ;^)

Is there a useful link I can add from the GHC download pages?

Hm. No. Ebuilds are the fundament of Portage, the central Gentoo Linux package system, which is directly available to anyone running Gentoo Linux. Maybe you can add a comment saying that all Gentoo users with a recent Portage tree can now simply 'emerge ghc' for much Haskell fun. But, wait with that until the ebuild enters CVS. I'll make a seperate announcement to this liste once that's happened. So long, Sven Moritz