Remaining broken deps (Re: rawhide report: 20080417 changes)

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sun Apr 20 01:55:27 UTC 2008


David Woodhouse <dwmw2 <at> infradead.org> writes:
> > Is there anything which can be done about that or is this just going to
> > always show up?
> 
> Build ghc, of course :)

Unfortunately, ghc doesn't build at all in current Rawhide (for any arch), and 
even once that's fixed, there's still the problem of finding a valid bootstrap 
binary. (ghc is one of those annoying compilers written in their own language. 
IMHO it's a bad idea to write a non-C compiler in its own language, but the 
people writing a compiler for a language tend to like their language so much or 
to be so unfamiliar with any other language that they often make this 
unfortunate choice.)

        Kevin Kofler




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