Hi, On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 08:28:58PM -0800, Greg Steuck wrote: > > Use a new bootstrap (still 8.10.7, but built on current from > > 2023-02-18). Attached is some kind of "port" I fiddled together > > from what's in CVS and some newer stuff, only used for "make > > bootstrap". > > Nice! I belive we should keep a variation of this in the tree and > rebuild bootstrap periodically. There's a bit of intentional duplication > and some detritus we could clean up, but we can do it in the tree just > fine. > > Some suggestion before committing this would be to stub it somehow such > that nobody mistakes this for a real package directory. Maybe remove > PLIST/PFRAG* and report an error from do-build: target?
Done, except for the do-build: thing (because do-build: is still
required for bootstrap:).
> Also update the COMMENT to something like:
> bootstrap generator for lang/ghc while it can't be self-hosted
That's a little bit long for COMMENT, so I shortened it a little ;-)
Ok to import this (as lang/ghc-8.10.7)?
(I also checked that the bootstrap can be built with itself, using the
one that I built and uploaded two weeks ago)
Ciao,
Kili
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