On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 14:46 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > > I don't think I understand how GHC itself is built any longer, either. > > What does cabal-bin do? > > It's effectively a pre-compiled Setup.hs for packages that have no need for > a custom Setup.hs. cabal-install does the same job for end-users, but we > can't rely on having cabal-install in the GHC build system.
The point being that linking default Setup.hs scripts all the time is a waste (especially since it doesn't parallelise). > > What is runghc.wrapper? > > it's a template used to make a shell wrapper for a binary. There seems to > be new functionality in Cabal to support this. Ian added this the other day. I can't say I understand it yet or if it's generally applicable to all packages. Obviously the intention is to allow relocatable binaries on unix systems by using wrapper scripts. Duncan _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
