<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:05 PM, David Leimbach <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leimy2k@gmail.com">leimy2k@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Don Stewart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dons@galois.com" target="_blank">dons@galois.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
martijn:<br>
<div>> Don Stewart wrote:<br>
>> Yes, anything that is relevant to the development experience on this<br>
>> platform. Remember: it is more than just getting ghc. How do they get<br>
>> hold of new libraries and apps? Is cabal-install available?<br>
><br>
> Since GHC is written in Haskell, do you need to have another Haskell<br>
> compiler installed before GHC 6.10.1 can be installed through MacPorts?<br>
<br>
</div>It bootstraps itself.<br>
<div><div></div><div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>??? GHC does or MacPorts does. My experience was that you needed GHC to build GHC :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Dave</div><div class="im"><div> </div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>To be clear the download page says you must have an older version of GHC to build it.</div><div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; font-size: 16px; ">The source distribution needs an installed GHC (version 6.4.2 at least). If your platform isn't currently supported with a binary distribution, then you'll need to consult the section on <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 224); text-decoration: none; ">Porting GHC</a> in the Building Guide."</span></div>
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