Re: [Cooker] issue: building ghc & happy

[Pixel]

"Geoffrey Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> _this_ is the main problem with ghc and happy. the specs need to be merged.
> or else it doesn't work!! :-/
> 
> 
> this isn't just a archexclusive problem ...

it is. 

happy is written in haskell, and so it needs ghc. ghc's grammar is written using
happy which requires happy. And of course, ghc is written in haskell :)

the usual solution to these kind of bootstrapping is to use an older version to
compile .hc's in .c's (haskell to C)