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Hi Folks,
I'd like to make a port for our Haskell compiler, GHC (see
http://research.microsoft.com/users/t-simonm/ghc). There are some subtle
problems with this:
- GHC depends on itself. That is, you need GHC
installed in order to build GHC.
- GHC depends on Happy, our parser generator.
- Happy depends on GHC (it's written in Haskell).
So, one solution would be to provide a binary port, say ghc-bin, which would
install a binary distribution. I checked the modula-3 port, and it doesn't
seem to have a binary port, so what's the accepted way of doing this?
It's possible to bootstrap GHC from intermediate C files, but it's a bit
fiddly and I'd prefer not to do this if possible. However, one thing that
occurs to me is that the port could bootstrap itself from C if you say 'make
BOOTSTRAP=YES', and otherwise attempt to build using an installed GHC.
Any thoughts greatly appreciated.
I'm not on this list, BTW.
Cheers,
Simon
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