On 10/25/2014 12:52 AM, Austin Seipp wrote: > Hi *, > > A few days ago a discussion on IRC occurred about the LLVM backend, > its current status, and what we could do to make it a rock solid part > of GHC for all our users. > > Needless to say, the situation right now isn't so hot: we have no > commitment to version support, two major versions are busted, others > are seriously buggy, and yet there are lots of things we could improve > on. > > So I give you a proposal, from a few of us to you all, about improving it: > > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ImprovedLLVMBackend > > I won't repeat what's on the wiki page too much, but the TL;DR version > is: we should start packaging a version of LLVM, and shipping it with > e.g. binary distributions of GHC. It's just a lot better for everyone. > > I know we're normally fairly hesitant about things like this (shipping > external dependencies), but I think it's the only sane thing to do > here, and the situation is fairly unique in that it's not actually > very complicated to implement or support, I think. > > We'd like to do this for 7.12. I've also wrangled some people to help. > Those people know who they are (because they're CC'd), and I will now > badger them into submission until it is fixed for 7.12. > > Please let me know what you think. > > PS. Joachim, I would be particularly interested in upstream needs for > Debian, as I know of their standard packaging policy to not duplicate > things. >
I don't think any distro wants to duplicate things. Even if GHC does end up shipping with LLVM, it should be easy for distro packagers to ignore that and use their own. -- Mateusz K. _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs