Hello Simon, Monday, August 21, 2006, 8:03:41 PM, you wrote:
>> I'm not sure I understand this. How do you guys work then? Do you >> always build ghc 6.5 using ghc 6.4? > Sure. >> What about the time-honored technique of bootstrapping using yourself? > You can do that of course, but it has to be the *exact same compiler*. That > is, > not one you built from last week's sources. It's just not practical to > support > building GHC with any GHC that existed at any point in the past, we'd have > #ifdefs up the wazoo and a testing nightmare. btw, it's not obvious on first look, nor mentioned in building docs. i propose to add your comment there -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
