Circular dependency between the compiler and TH?

Simon Marlow simonmarhaskell at gmail.com
Tue Aug 22 05:15:57 EDT 2006


Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Simon,
> 
> Monday, August 21, 2006, 8:03:41 PM, you wrote:

>>You can do that of course, but it has to be the *exact same compiler*.  That is,
>>not one you built from last week's sources.  It's just not practical to support
>>building GHC with any GHC that existed at any point in the past, we'd have
>>#ifdefs up the wazoo and a testing nightmare.
> 
> 
> btw, it's not obvious on first look, nor mentioned in building docs. i
> propose to add your comment there

Strange, I did think it was documented, but I can't find it.  Thanks for 
pointing it out, I'll add something to the docs.

Cheers,
	Simon


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