ghc-boot

Shared functionality between GHC and its boot libraries

Version on this page:	8.0.2
LTS Haskell 22.43:	9.6.6
Stackage Nightly 2025-05-02:	9.10.1
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-8.0.2@sha256:86d53293f228d3b5de007f6e640255280903f4dfe4020eba46a7b0fe84ebce5c,1908

Module documentation for 8.0.2

Depends on 6 packages(full list with versions):

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

Used by 7 packages in lts-9.13(full list with versions):

clash-ghc, ghc, ghc-exactprint, ghci, haddock-api, hdevtools, hsdev

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.

ghc-boot

Module documentation for 8.0.2

Changes

8.0.2 Jan 2017

8.0.1 May 2016