RE: Minimum GHC version

"Simon Marlow" <[email protected]> Mon, 7 Mar 2005 10:18:15 -0000

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On 05 March 2005 13:38, Sven Panne wrote:

> What are the required minimum GHC versions needed for building GHC
> itself and the tools (alex, happy, ...)? Currently I'm unable to find
> this info and knowing this might help to simplify some #ifdef
> horror... 

It's supposed to be GHC 5+ to build GHC, I believe.  However, I only
have 5.04.3 available for testing here since we upgraded the OS on our
machines, so it's possible that 5.02 and earlier might fail.  We test
the bootstrap with 5.04.3 every night, though.

Cheers,
	Simon