Crazy idea, building ghc with cabal?
Hello Could it be done and would it be interesting, building 'ghc' using cabal? * 'lhc' does it * Use 'cabal-rpm' and 'cabal2arch' to create packages for linux distributions * As ordinary user, install specific versions in your home directory. cabal install ghc => $HOME/.cabal/bin/ghc * Get base packages as a dependency. Greetings Joris
On 30 November 2010 03:46, Joris Putcuyps <joris.putcuyps@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello
Could it be done and would it be interesting, building 'ghc' using cabal?
* 'lhc' does it * Use 'cabal-rpm' and 'cabal2arch' to create packages for linux distributions * As ordinary user, install specific versions in your home directory. cabal install ghc => $HOME/.cabal/bin/ghc * Get base packages as a dependency.
... except we then have a chicken and egg problem: GHC is built with Cabal, which needs a Haskell compiler/implementation, etc. ;-) -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com> wrote:
On 30 November 2010 03:46, Joris Putcuyps <joris.putcuyps@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello
Could it be done and would it be interesting, building 'ghc' using cabal?
* 'lhc' does it * Use 'cabal-rpm' and 'cabal2arch' to create packages for linux distributions * As ordinary user, install specific versions in your home directory. cabal install ghc => $HOME/.cabal/bin/ghc * Get base packages as a dependency.
... except we then have a chicken and egg problem: GHC is built with Cabal, which needs a Haskell compiler/implementation, etc. ;-)
-- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com
Well, GHC is already written in Haskell, so you already need GHC to compile GHC. I think the reasons are more to do with the fact that Cabal doesn't have some features that are needed for such a complex build as GHC, maybe including the bootstrapping that needs to happen. Alex
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