Date: 12 Sep 1999 03:40:24 -0700 From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: Simon Marlow <simonmar@microsoft.com> Cc: "'hackers@freebsd.org'" <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to go about making a compiler port Message-ID: <vqcaeqs4dlz.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Simon Marlow's message of "Sun, 12 Sep 1999 02:07:15 -0700" References: <8B57882C41A0D1118F7100805F9F68B51232C0E2@RED-MSG-45>
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* From: Simon Marlow <simonmar@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 majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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