RE: [Cooker] issue: building ghc & happy

[Geoffrey Lee]

> >
> >
> > 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 :)
>


ahh ok. :-)


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



kind of like downloading gcc source when you don't have the gcc compiler
binary installed on your system. :-)