[darcs-users] dropping GHC 6.6 support

Karel Gardas karel.gardas at centrum.cz
Thu Jun 11 09:40:30 UTC 2009


Christian Kellermann wrote:
> * Matthias Kilian <kili at outback.escape.de> [090610 21:25]:
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 07:18:56PM +0200, Karel Gardas wrote:
>> Slacker! You don't have to use the ghc package or port, you can
>> just build a ghc-6.10 from the available ghc-6.6 and install it
>> into some directory used by the buildbot. I'm doing this for my ghc
>> buildbot.
> 
> On a side note is there any progress regarding the new build system kili?
> (Which as I understood would make porting a newer ghc to OpenBSD easier).

GHC new build system is already merged into GHC head. Also the old bug
of not being able to bootstrap just from HC files should also be fixed
if I understand the issue well.

Karel



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