ghc-boot

Shared functionality between GHC and its boot libraries

Version on this page:8.0.1
LTS Haskell 16.11:8.8.3
Stackage Nightly 2023-12-08:9.6.3
Latest on Hackage:9.8.1

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BSD-3-Clause licensed
Maintained by ghc-devs@haskell.org
This version can be pinned in stack with:ghc-boot-8.0.1@sha256:38f56fdd918a98ae06d328e0c7fb981abd1f41ac3a8c17fb7c983f79a3f84a18,1924

This library is shared between GHC, ghc-pkg, and other boot libraries.

A note about GHC.PackageDb: 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.

Changes

8.0.1 May 2016

  • Bundled with GHC 8.0.1

  • Initial version