duncan.coutts: > On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 18:20 +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote: > > I run a source based linux distro called Heretix, and I want to make a ghc > > package which will install with or without an existing ghc. At the moment, > > we > > supply a binary-ghc package, whch is a prerequisite of the from-source ghc > > package. > > When we first added ghc to gentoo we considered doing an hc build but > decided against it in the end. We now just do what you currently do, > that is provide a binary package as a dependency of the source package. > > The ghc build system doesn't easily support hc builds and my impression
I wouldn't say that was true. > is that it would take quite a bit of effort on the part of the ghc > developers to improve the support for that kind of build. Given that it > is quite a bit of work and there are simple workarounds (ie use a binary > package) it has not been a high priority. No, .hc builds just work. They've been built nightly for amd64,x86 and sparc openbsd for a couple of years now. > Changing the build system tends to be the kind of task that can only be > done by core developers and it is these developers whose time is most > valuably spent on other tasks. > > So I think you're unlikely to get the changes you're looking for. My > advice is to just stick to the binary bootstrap method. You won't have to hack the build system ;) -- Don _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users