On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 08:49:03PM +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote: > Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Ah. I was about to checkin a replacement for System.Posix.Types (in > > > base) that uses hsc2hs instead of autoconf. > > > > Anyway, to answer your question, using hsc2hs in System.Posix.Types > > will cause problems for bootstrapping GHC, yes, because we can't run > > hsc2hs on the target without GHC, but we can run configure. > > But it is only a problem for cross-compiling - yes?
Yes. > And no more of a problem than ghc already has? No, with the configure method we can run configure on the target and copy the files back to the host. The instructions at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting do so for includes/ghcautoconf.h includes/DerivedConstants.h includes/GHCConstants.h and look like they ought to for libraries/base/include/HsBaseConfig.h too. But we can't run hsc2hs on the target without having a Haskell compiler there. Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
