Re: Need review: ghc

[Jochen Schmitt <Jochen herr-schmitt de>]

On Thu, 12 May 2005 17:46:26 +0900, you wrote:

>After reviewing, the remaining issue is just bootstrapping
>because ghc-6.4-8 requires ghc64 (its main subpackage) to build.
>Generating (arch dependent) bootstrap tarballs of C files
>with ghc would depend on ghc anyway so the recommended way
>to buildstrap ghc in buildroots is using such a pre-built binary
>package: indeed the Debian maintainer tells me this is also
>the way new archs are bootstrapped for debian.
>
>Signed binary packages for Fedora Core i386, ppc and x86_64 are
>available from Fedora Haskell <http://haskell.org/fedora/>:
>
>http://haskell.org/fedora/haskell/3/i386/RPMS.stable/ghc64-6.4-7.i386.rpm
>http://haskell.org/fedora/haskell/3/ppc/RPMS.stable/ghc64-6.4-1.ppc.rpm
>http://haskell.org/fedora/haskell/3/x86_64/RPMS.stable/ghc64-6.4-7.x86_64.rpm
>
>and can be used for the initial builds.

Special question?

Does the build system able to handle such a situation, that a
package need itself as a buildrequirement?

Best Regards:

Jochen Schmitt