Ticket #3556 (closed task: wontfix)

Opened 4 years ago

Last modified 20 months ago

Build the bootstrapping ghc-pkg with ghc-cabal

Reported by: igloo Owned by:
Priority: high Milestone: 7.4.1
Component: Build System Version: 6.11
Keywords: Cc:
Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple
Type of failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown
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Description

The current build rules for ghc-pkg are getting increasingly intricate.

It should be possible to build the bootstrapping ghc-pkg with ghc-cabal instead, which should simplify things.

Change History

Changed 4 years ago by igloo

It may also be worth building stage1 earlier, so that we don't need the dummy-ghc hack.

Changed 4 years ago by igloo

  • priority changed from normal to high
  • failure set to None/Unknown

Changed 4 years ago by igloo

See also #3678

Changed 3 years ago by igloo

  • milestone changed from 6.14.1 to 6.16.1

punting

Changed 20 months ago by simonmar

  • status changed from new to closed
  • resolution set to wontfix

Not sure it's worth having a ticket for this, I added a ToDo? comment to the code instead.

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