Building GHC 5.02 on Solaris x86

[Alastair David Reid]

> So, bringing back the solution of having manually written C wrapper
> functions which platform-independent Haskell source files will call
> out to, would be preferable (in short, avoid the use of hsc2hs *or
> any other extra tool* alltogether). I'm willing to make the
> necessary changes.

You started by objecting to using a tool that commits your code to a
platform too early.  I'm in complete agreement.

But now you seem to be objecting to using any tools at all.  This seems
excessive.  Why not do one of:

1) Don't write the tool in Haskell

2) Write in Haskell but execute it using a more easily ported Haskell
   implementation (i.e., Hugs or NHC)

3) Write it in Haskell but include platform independent machine 
   generated code in the distributions.

[I lean towards 3 since it avoids the embarressment of 1 and 2]

(This is all on the assumption that the amount of code we're talking
about is significant enough to care.  I have the impression that it is
but could be wrong.)


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Alastair