Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 19:15 +0100, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
What I am arguing for (and Bulat, if I understand him correctly) is that it's ok if building the _compiler itself_ (or profiler or whatever else (apart from some exceptions like cabal) is shipped with the compiler) needs libraries from outside the core library set.
Yes. I agree.
Since GHC is currently statically linked, the set of libs that are required to build GHC need not be related to the set of libs that come with GHC by default.
Just one comment here: the set of packages required to build GHC is actually very small: just unix (if you're on Unix) and regex-compat. The set of packages required to build a stage 2 GHC is larger, but we include all those in the source tree. Yes there's no reason that we actually have to *install* these packages too, but it seems silly not to, since we just built them. It would be more trouble to arrange that we didn't install them, I guess. Cheers, Simon