Re: Alex and Happy as build dependency of GHC
Sean Whitton wrote:
> 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.
GHC itself is difficult to port to new architectures (in comparision to say
a program written in C or C++). If someone wants to put in the effort to port
GHC to a new architecture, doing Happy and Alex as well would be trivial in
comparison.
Cheers,
Erik
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