What about providing a package (binary only distribution) and a port?
And the port could include the possibility to bootstrap the
installation.
See the handbook on how to build a package.
Nick
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Simon Marlow wrote:
> [originally sent to ports, resending to hackers at the suggestion of someone
> on that list.]
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'd like to make a port for our Haskell compiler, GHC (see
> http://research.microsoft.com/users/t-simonm/ghc). There are some subtle
> problems with this:
>
> - GHC depends on itself. That is, you need GHC
> installed in order to build GHC.
>
> - GHC depends on Happy, our parser generator.
>
> - Happy depends on GHC (it's written in Haskell).
>
> So, one solution would be to provide a binary port, say ghc-bin, which would
> install a binary distribution. I checked the modula-3 port, and it doesn't
> seem to have a binary port, so what's the accepted way of doing this?
>
> It's possible to bootstrap GHC from intermediate C files, but it's a bit
> fiddly and I'd prefer not to do this if possible. However, one thing that
> occurs to me is that the port could bootstrap itself from C if you say 'make
> BOOTSTRAP=YES', and otherwise attempt to build using an installed GHC.
>
> Any thoughts greatly appreciated.
>
> I'm not on this list, BTW.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
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