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Re: Alex and Happy as build dependency of GHC



Hello,

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 10:31:48AM +0200, Kai Harries wrote:
> recently there is a discussion[1] if excluding Happy and Alex from the
> build dependency of GHC is worth the extra burden. For me it looks
> like Happy and Alex is available on all architectures where GHC is
> available.
> 
> Do you guys know of any major obstacles that would come up if GHC has
> a build dependency on Alex and Happy?

It might make it hard to add a new architecture to Debian.  See
<https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBootstrap>.  I don't know enough to judge
how hard it would make it.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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