Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 10:31:48AM +0200, Kai Harries wrote: > > recently there is a discussion[1] if excluding Happy and Alex from the > > build dependency of GHC is worth the extra burden. For me it looks > > like Happy and Alex is available on all architectures where GHC is > > available. > > > > Do you guys know of any major obstacles that would come up if GHC has > > a build dependency on Alex and Happy? > > It might make it hard to add a new architecture to Debian. See > <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBootstrap>. I don't know enough to judge > how hard it would make it.
GHC itself is difficult to port to new architectures (in comparision to say a program written in C or C++). If someone wants to put in the effort to port GHC to a new architecture, doing Happy and Alex as well would be trivial in comparison. Cheers, Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/
