Re: Updating plans of lang/ghc

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 04:13:30 +0900, David Holland 
<dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

>  > Can ghc be built using some other Haskell implementation?
>
> Not AFAIK. But even if it theoretically can, the others (hugs and
> nhc98) don't really work well enough to do this in practice. I updated
> nhc98 recently, but it still supports 64-bit platforms only by
> compiling itself with -m32. Also it won't run on one of my machines
> for some reason I haven't got around to chasing down.

"GHC is required to build GHC, because GHC itself is written in Haskell, and uses 
GHC extensions."
"In general, we support building with the previous 2 major releases"
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Tools

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