* From: Simon Marlow <simon...@microsoft.com> * [originally sent to ports, resending to hackers at the suggestion of someone * on that list.]
Sorry, you probably caught us at the busiest time right before the release.... * 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? Look at lang/gnat. It has a similar situation. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
