haskell 7 world

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 at 05:26, Ken Cunningham wrote:
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> For users of the systems that can't run the current haskell 8.x software (at present at least) I extracted what i believe is the bulk of the haskell 7.x world and have it as a portfile overlay.
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> It seems to work.  pandoc installs and runs on 10.6.8, for example, as does HedgeWars.
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> Perhaps it might be of use for someone -- maybe some motivated person might know how to use that working ghc @7.8.3 and build it forward to some current haskell compiler.
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> clone this <https://github.com/kencu/mp-haskell7-world.git> and overlay it if you like.

Cool!

Doesn't it work if you simply use this working ghc-bootstrap to build version 8?
Or is Haskell too picky about what version of compiler you require to
build something newer, and you can only go forward one tiny step at a
time?

In general they are suggesting cross-compilation to get support to new
platforms.

Mojca