Changes between Version 23 and Version 24 of Attic/Building/BuildSystem/New

Timestamp:

01/14/09 01:10:59 (4 years ago)

Author:

simonmar

Comment:

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Attic/Building/BuildSystem/New

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  * '''Stage 0''' is the GHC you have installed.  The "GHC you have installed" is also called "the bootstrap compiler".
- * '''Stage 1''' is the first GHC we build, using stage 0
+ * '''Stage 1''' is the first GHC we build, using stage 0.  Stage 1 is then used to build the packages.
  * '''Stage 2''' is the second GHC we build, using stage 1.  This is the one we normally install when you say `make install`.
  * '''Stage 3''' is optional, but is sometimes built to test stage 2.
 
-Only stages 2 and 3 support interactive execution (GHCi) and Template Haskell.  The reason being that when running interactive code we must dynamically link the packages, and only in stage 2 can we guarantee that the packages we dynamically link are compatible with those that GHC was built against (because they are the very same packages).
+Stage 1 does not support interactive execution (GHCi) and Template Haskell.  The reason being that when running byte code we must dynamically link the packages, and only in stage 2 and later can we guarantee that the packages we dynamically link are compatible with those that GHC was built against (because they are the very same packages).
 
 == Idiom: distdir ==