Marc Espie <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 10:29:57PM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Greg asked me to provide a new ghc boostrap. Here it is; i could built >> lang/ghc and all ports depending on it with it. >> >> If it's ok to put it in before release, could someone else please >> commit it? My internet connection is currently almost completely >> broken.
> Just noticed this bootstrap thingy by accident (grep is a good thing) > and fixed the MASTER_SITES0 to the new style. Thanks for doing the sweeps! > Could we NOT do things this way ? not sure if we have another > bootstrap Makefile for another language in the tree, > but I'd rather there be marked as > IGNORE = reason > and hooked up to the tree. Depending on how badly you want this, we can either fix it after the release or wait a bit longer. The reason for this bizarre scheme is inability of ghc-9.2 series to bootstrap itself via make flow. They deprecated this flow upstream and it will be going away soon. I intend to switch to their almost-ready flow with the 9.4 or 9.6 upgrade. This effort is predicated on my time availability and the Haskell ecosystem readiness to these ghc version. Maybe I'll spend some time on this in November, who knows? Thanks Greg
