On 12 December 2005 22:47, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

andrew:

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I run a source based linux distro called Heretix, and I want to make a ghc package which will install with or without an existing ghc. At the moment, we supply a binary-ghc package, whch is a prerequisite of the from-source ghc package.

It seems to me that I can prepare HC tarballs for my target platforms (x86, x86_64) which will remove the need for the ghc-binary package. My questions:

1) Can I produce 'registered' hc files? The build manual bangs on about cross compiling unregistered hc files, which isn't really what I need.

2) Would a ghc built from registered hgc files every bit as good and complete as a normally bootstrapped ghc?

Yes, the OpenBSD versions of GHC build from registerised .hc tar balls. It's fast.

If you're interested in this path, check out: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/lang/ghc/

That port is for 6.2.2 - do you have a 6.4.1 port too? Many thanks for keeping the .hc bootstrapping route working, BTW. It's a great help. Cheers, SImon