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We are moving the discussion from |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10155 |
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to this forum in the hope of getting some feedback from the general |
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Gentoo crowd. The problems we're facing are not so much |
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Haskell-specific, but center around the problem of how to support |
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Haskell in the Gentoo framework. |
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Currently we try to find the best solution for the following problem: |
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There are at least two compilers for the Haskell language: ghc and |
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nhc. Unfortunately, not every program can be compiled with either of |
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them; most packages require ghc specifically. |
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Now we wonder how to organize this in the ebuild. A virtual |
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"haskell-compiler" target won't do us any good, because -- as I said |
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-- many packages require ghc. Hard-coding the ebuilds to depend on ghc |
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only is not the right thing to do either, because some packages _can_ |
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be build with either ghc or nhc, and ideally, the user would be able |
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to choose which compiler should be used. |
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How can this best be expressed in an ebuild? |
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Peter |
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