On 12 December 2005 18:21, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> 3) Why don't you guys supply hc tarballs for bootstrapping on common
> platforms? They would seem to be rather more versatile than the usual
> rpms and binary tarballs.
A couple of reasons, neither of which is very convincing:
1. the HC files
On 12 December 2005 22:47, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> andrew:
>> I run a source based linux distro called Heretix, and I want to make
>> a ghc package which will install with or without an existing ghc. At
>> the moment, we supply a binary-ghc package, whch is a prerequisite
>> of the from-sour
Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
Most distros are using binary bootstrapping. I think OpenBSD is the only
one building from .hc src.
And NetBSD.
-- Lennart
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On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 09:47 +1100, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> Most distros are using binary bootstrapping. I think OpenBSD is the only
> one building from .hc src.
That's because none of the rest of us had heard that it'd been fixed!
I'm glad to hear it, we might switch. Gentoo users ought to
duncan.coutts:
> On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 18:20 +, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> > I run a source based linux distro called Heretix, and I want to make a ghc
> > package which will install with or without an existing ghc. At the moment,
> > we
> > supply a binary-ghc package, whch is a prerequisite o
andrew:
> I run a source based linux distro called Heretix, and I want to make a ghc
> package which will install with or without an existing ghc. At the moment, we
> supply a binary-ghc package, whch is a prerequisite of the from-source ghc
> package.
>
> It seems to me that I can prepare HC t
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 18:20 +, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> I run a source based linux distro called Heretix, and I want to make a ghc
> package which will install with or without an existing ghc. At the moment, we
> supply a binary-ghc package, whch is a prerequisite of the from-source ghc
> pac
