Re: [Yhc] Compiling Prelude.hs

I wonder how this bootstrapping version of base was built. When I tried to do this manually the compiler died with stack overflow. Is it because the compiler is tring to import Prelude while compiling Prelude?

Yes, its something like that. There are also problems with recursive dependancies I believe - things like IO require the Prelude, and the Prelude requires IO. If you look at the Unix makefile, that really does try and build them - it also requires the special flag --unifyhack or something. I believe it also requires modifying the .hi file by hand as well. The hope is in future that compiling the Prelude will be as simple as "yhc Prelude.hs" - but this requires quite a few changes before thats ready. Thanks Neil