ghc package bootstrapping

Gérard Milmeister gemi at bluewin.ch
Sun Feb 13 17:07:09 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 00:36 +0900, Jens Petersen wrote:
> http://people.redhat.com/petersen/ghc-6.2.2-1.src.rpm
> 
> GHC (Glasgow Haskell Compiler), the main-used
> compiler of the Haskell programming language,
> see <http://haskell.org/ghc/>, is under active
> development, and the RC series for ghc-6.4 has
> just started.
> 
> Gemi originally contributed ghc to fedora.us,
> but due to slow reviewing and the bootstrap
> requirement, it got stuck in the queue...
> Since ghc is a compiler and largely written
> in Haskell, it basically needs itself to build.
I have the src and binary rpms in

http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/staff/milmei/rpms

I think haddock is also needed to make the documentation.
If Jens takes care of managing ghc for Extras, then I need
not do this. I have several other packages for ghc (and also nhc98
and hugs) that I could contribute.
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Gérard Milmeister
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