Many thanks to Darrin Chandler and dcoppa@ for testing, reporting about
broken stuff, missing dependencies here and in ports depending on ghc.
Notes and rants:
- Bootstrapping is done using precompiled binaries, since .hc
bootstrapping still doesn't work. I really hate this.
THIS MEANS THAT GHC IS NOW AND WILL STAY LEGACY-ONLY (i386 and amd64)
At least until someone fixes it. I tried for more than two year
(well, only in my spare time and during my vacations) and failed.
- libgmp is currently disabled, because I didn't yet hack the GHC build
system to use the system libgmp instead of the patched one included
in GHC.
- The haddock ncluded in the ghc distfile is replaced by the version
of haddock found in devel/haddock. Haddock itself is @commented
in the ghc PLIST. Unfortunately, this needs an ugly hack that
introduces an otherwise useless pseudo flavor `no_deps' in
devel/haddock.
- CLDouble has been removed from GHC some time ago, because it was
an alias for double (AFAIK there's now support for long double
in GHC). As this isn't a really big problem, it currently breaks
c2hs, which I'll mark broken temporarily before committing the
ghc update.
- The external codeset defaults to latin1 (suggested by Simon Marlow)
and can be overridden by setting the HS_ENCODING to any codeset
supported by libiconv.
- ghc.port.mk still needs some love, especially for letting a port add
additional parameters to certain invocations of ${MODGHC_SETUP_PROG}.
- Updated to ghc-6.0
- Halved (roughly) the build time; by using the 6.0 in-tree build
we only have to build the 6.0 libraries once. Also we only build the
necessary parts of the bootstrap compiler.
- The ugly lndir/stage1 build is also gone.
- The full ghc regression suite is now part of the port!
"make regress" will run around 3000 regress tests.
- The regression tests revealed that the C foreign function
- The Makefile is simplified, using more default targets
- The documentation is updated to 6.0
- I put some of the 5.04.3 patches into ghc cvs, so they are
now obsolete.
Unfortunately, this lets mozilla back in the race for longest
package building time...
time" award from mozilla and gcc3
From Don Stewart <dons@cse.unsw.edu.au> with tweaks from me
(i386 only for the moment)
--
The Glasgow Haskell Compiler is a robust, fully-featured, optimising
compiler for the functional programming language Haskell 98.
GHC compiles Haskell to either native code or C. It implements
numerous experimental language extensions to Haskell, including
concurrency, a foreign language interface, several type-system
extensions, exceptions, and so on. GHC comes with a generational
garbage collector, a space and time profiler, and a comprehensive
set of libraries.
