Template Haskell and stage-1

[Gabor Greif]

Maybe DPH just should be left out of being built in the default target?

Just an idea,

   Gabor

On 11/6/13, Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 01:43:02PM +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
>> I'd like to make -XtemplateHaskell simply illegal in a stage-1 compiler.
>> After all, it is!
>> But for some reason we use the stage1 compiler to generate dependencies
>> for the DPH libraries; those libraries have {-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell
>> #-}, so the dependency generation fails.  See below.
>> But WHY do we generate deps for DPH with stage1?  We don't *compile* the
>> DPH libraries with stage1, because they need TH.  Can't we just generate
>> deps with stage2?
>
> It's due to the build system phases:
> http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Architecture/Idiom/PhaseOrdering#GHCsphases
>
> Stage2 doesn't exist during the phase in which DPH is configured.
> Changing it to use stage 2 would probably mean adding another phase for
> things that need to be configured by stage 2. This might mean slower
> builds due to loss of parallelism, I'm not sure.
>
> Perhaps the decision to build DPH with the GHC build system should be
> revisited? It causes some complication, and it seems that more and more
> people are disabling it anyway, in order to get faster builds.
>
>
> Thanks
> Ian
>
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