On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 02:42:27PM -0500, Nicolas Frisby wrote:
1) How much effort does it take for a user to install a
dynamically-linked ghc executable on Tier 1 platforms? Just download the
source and set DYNAMIC_GHC_PROGRAMS=YES?
From 7.8, the plan is for this to be the default on
Hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 10.07.2013, 14:42 -0500 schrieb Nicolas Frisby:
2) Are the major GHC distributors planning on distributing
dynamically-linked ghc by default? GHC HQ, Haskell Platform,
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/distribution_packages?
You are talking about the GHC binary itself, not
Theoretically, ARM supports stage2 with the home-grown linker and a
statically linked GHC, but last I understood, it can't build
dynamically. That's because building the compiler with LLVM
dynamically is unsupported, and ARM can only use the LLVM backend.
There may be hope though; in commit