[GHC] #1393: Tag source tree with successful bootstraps

[GHC]

#1393: Tag source tree with successful bootstraps
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  Reporter:  guest     |          Owner:         
      Type:  bug       |         Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal    |      Milestone:         
 Component:  Compiler  |        Version:  6.7    
  Severity:  minor     |       Keywords:         
Difficulty:  Unknown   |             Os:  Unknown
  Testcase:            |   Architecture:  Unknown
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Trying to keep up with ghc HEAD can be very frustrating.  If you grab the
 source tree at any point in time there only seems to be about a 10% chance
 that the compiler can actually successfully bootstrap itself and all the
 libraries.
 I suggest that the nightly build should tag the tree when it has
 successfully bootstrapped everything (for each platform).  This way there
 would be recent and working fall-back points.

 Alternatively, make sure that bootstrapping works before pushing the
 change into the main repo (but given the speed of recompilation this could
 be painful).

   -- Lennart

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1393>
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