ghc-boot: Shared functionality between GHC and its boot libraries

This library is shared between GHC, ghc-pkg, and other boot libraries. . A note about GHC.Unit.Database: it only deals with the subset of the package database that the compiler cares about: modules paths etc and not package metadata like description, authors etc. It is thus not a library interface to ghc-pkg and is *not* suitable for modifying GHC package databases. . The package database format and this library are constructed in such a way that while ghc-pkg depends on Cabal, the GHC library and program do not have to depend on Cabal.

Modules

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Flags

Manual Flags

Name	Description	Default
bootstrap	Enabled when building the stage1 compiler in order to vendor the in-tree `template-haskell` library (including its dependency `ghc-boot-th`), while allowing dependencies to depend on the boot `template-haskell` library. See Note [Bootstrapping Template Haskell]	Disabled

Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info

Downloads

• ghc-boot-9.12.1.tar.gz [browse] (Cabal source package)
• Package description (as included in the package)

Maintainer's Corner

Package maintainers

• BenGamari, HerbertValerioRiedel, wz1000

For package maintainers and hackage trustees

• edit package information

Candidates

• 8.0.2, 8.2.1, 8.2.2, 8.4.1, 8.4.2, 8.4.3, 8.4.4, 8.6.1, 8.6.4, 8.6.5, 8.8.1, 9.0.1, 9.2.1, 9.2.2, 9.4.0.20220623, 9.4.1, 9.4.2, 9.4.4, 9.6.0.20230111, 9.6.0.20230128, 9.6.0.20230210, 9.6.0.20230302, 9.6.1, 9.6.2, 9.6.3, 9.8.0.20230919, 9.8.0.20230929, 9.8.1, 9.10.1