ghc-boot

Shared functionality between GHC and its boot libraries

Version on this page:8.0.2
LTS Haskell 24.28:9.10.3
Stackage Nightly 2026-01-12:9.12.3
Latest on Hackage:9.14.1

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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

Used by 6 packages in nightly-2017-03-02(full list with versions):
clash-ghc, ghc, ghc-exactprint, ghci, ghc-mod, hdevtools

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

8.0.2 Jan 2017

  • Bundled with GHC 8.0.2

8.0.1 May 2016

  • Bundled with GHC 8.0.1

  • Initial version