Brian Strand wrote:
I originally tried the binary distribution but ran into library issues. That is of course the obvious path to try, and try it I did. Rather than going straight to installing deprecated libraries, I tried to provide some feedback on ghc (especially since 6.4 RCs are out).
Well, it seems like I should have read your previous posts more attentively before mentioning the recommended way of doing things again - sorry.
Not being intimately familiar with ghc internals, I don't know how much work this is, and whether the implementation cost exceeds the benefit (easier installation for Haskell novices like me).
My guess is that for GHC, it won't work; the .hc files are really too low-level. Just about the only thing that's not already decided in the .hc files (that I can think of now) is the actual names of the libraries that the app links to. We'd need to supply .hc files for nearly as many platforms as we need binaries for.
So maybe x86-Linux needs a ghc binary with as few library dependencies as possible, to facilitate bootstrapping on different Linux distros?
Cheers,
Wolfgang
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