Re: Updating plans of lang/ghc

[Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> 
wrote:
> In article <20140108.022957.00492412.pho%cielonegro.org@localhost>,
> PHO  <pho%cielonegro.org@localhost> wrote:
>
>>I like the idea of lang/ghc-bootstrap. It is fairly attractive to have
>>a bootstrap kit installed as an usual pkgsrc package. The one thing I
>>am concerning about is that users will have to find and install a
>>binary package if they want to build lang/ghc themselves, otherwise
>>they'll end up standing in front of a circular
>>dependency. pkg_rolling-replace might complain about it each time the
>>packages get updated, even if both lang/ghc-bootstrap and lang/ghc
>>(somewhat old ones) are installed. I'm not sure this is OK or not. On
>>the other hand lang/ghc7 (and wip/ghc) are free from this problem, but
>>their bootstrap kits are somewhat inelegant.
>
> For those two reasons I think that the only choice is to include the bootstrap
> step inside a single package as part of the build of the final ghc.

I agree.  Building bootstrap binary is more like building "tools" in
NetBSD base.

(I think that pkgsrc should define the build-tools phase, if not exist yet.)