Hi all,
SimonPJ asked me to summarise the problems I've been having with GHC's
new build system with the idea that we could perhaps talk a bit about
this during today's IRC meeting. The context is the Data Parallel
Haskell project and in particular the dph packages which need a number
of
/cvs-ghc/2008-July/043798.html
Claus
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From: Roman Leschinskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: GHC Users Mailing List glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:22 PM
Subject: Build system woes
Hi all,
SimonPJ asked me to summarise the problems I've
We can talk about the general issues on IRC. But I thought I'd answer a
few of the specific questions quickly:
Roman Leschinskiy 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
Claus Reinke wrote:
For infrequent updaters like myself, it would also be nice just to have
a HEADS UP before and after periods of larger than usual instability
(such as build system replacements).
And, talking about #ghc, I've got the suspicion that this channel is
partly to blame for the
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
On 30/07/2008, at 23:46, Simon Marlow wrote:
We can talk about the general issues on IRC. But I thought I'd
answer a few of the specific questions quickly:
Thanks, Simon!
Roman Leschinskiy wrote:
I don't think I understand how GHC itself is built any longer,
either. What does
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:55:09AM +1000, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote:
I see. So it looks at the Build-Type in the package description and
calls the right defaultMain if it's not Custom. And if my Setup.hs
isn't standard then it's my responsibility to set the Build-Type to
Custom in the
