ghc-boot

Shared functionality between GHC and its boot libraries

Version on this page:	8.0.1
LTS Haskell 24.19:	9.10.3
Stackage Nightly 2025-07-14:	9.10.2
Latest on Hackage:	9.12.1

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BSD-3-Clause licensed

Maintained by [email protected]

This version can be pinned in stack with:ghc-boot-8.0.1@sha256:38f56fdd918a98ae06d328e0c7fb981abd1f41ac3a8c17fb7c983f79a3f84a18,1924

Module documentation for 8.0.1

Depends on 6 packages(full list with versions):

base, binary, bytestring, directory, filepath, ghc-boot-th

Used by 7 packages in lts-7.24(full list with versions):

ghc, ghc-exactprint, ghci, ghc-mod, haddock-api, hdevtools, text-show-instances

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