On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 02:47:21PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
> * Simon Marlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990912 13:05]:
>
> >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 not a port yet, but compiles from it's distribuiton without
problems: SmallEiffel is also written in itself, but has a
natural intermediate compilation phase which is ANSI C. The
distribution just includes the C, from which the compiler and
tools is built.
That seems to work pretty well.
--
Andrew
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