pkgsrc/lang/ghc7/TODO
obache 672727ee88 Import ghc-7.6.3 as lang/ghc7.
Based on wip/ghc, mostly worked by phonohawk, with patches from jperkin@.
And some modifications and buit of Bootstrap binaries for 7.6.3 by me.

GHC: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler.

The Glasgow Haskell Compiler is a robust, fully-featured, optimising
compiler for the functional programming language Haskell 98
(http://www.haskell.org). GHC compiles Haskell to either native code
or C. It implements numerous experimental language extensions to
Haskell, including concurrency, a foreign language interface, several
type-system extensions, exceptions, and so on. GHC comes with a
generational garbage collector, a space and time profiler, and a
comprehensive set of libraries.
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.. -*- rst -*-
wip/ghc TODO
============
* Modify configure.ac and rules/build-package-data.mk to allow
``--with-curses-{includes,libraries}`` to be passed to the top-level
``configure``, and send a patch to the upstream.
* Add the following ``./configure`` flags to eliminate
``patch-Makefile`` and ``patch-ghc.mk``:
* ``--with-dist-archiver={bzip2,xz} [default=bzip2]``
* ``BZIP2FLAGS``
* ``XZFLAGS``
* Let ``./configure`` check for broken binutils and provide a better
fix for ``patch-rts_StgCRun.c``.
* Build more bootstrapping compilers to support more platforms.
How to build a bootstrapping compiler
-------------------------------------
You need a working compiler to build one. If you think there are no
bindists for your platform, you may need to cross-build a compiler
yourself: `Cross-compiling GHC
<http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/CrossCompiling>`_
Assuming you have a working ghc in your PATH, just run ``bmake patch
&& bmake bootstrap`` and see if you are lucky enough.