Nikita Karetnikov <[email protected]> skribis: >>> For now, at least ‘/bin/sh’ in ‘inplace/bin/ghc-cabal’. > >> What is it used for? Some kind of ‘system’ function? > > What do you mean by “’system’ function”?
I mean like the function called ‘system’ in libc and in Guile. > Another possible solution is to ship our own bootstrap binary (like we > do with Guile and Bash). But first, I’ll try to patch it. Are you OK > with that? With shipping a binary of GHC? Well, if that’s the only reasonable way to do it, then yes. GNU/MIT Scheme does that for instance, but that’s “their responsibility”, not ours. Does the GHC project distribute binaries for bootstrapping purposes? Thanks, Ludo’.
