ghc-boot

Shared functionality between GHC and its boot libraries

Version on this page:8.4.2
LTS Haskell 22.6:9.6.3
Stackage Nightly 2024-03-07:9.8.1
Latest on Hackage:9.8.1

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BSD-3-Clause licensed
Maintained by [email protected]
This version can be pinned in stack with:ghc-boot-8.4.2@sha256:e96f4a6ee231762c1f2f586167babd44fa34a8c9d680c2c1afddba200efc4476,1730

Module documentation for 8.4.2

Used by 4 packages in nightly-2018-04-27(full list with versions):

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