ghc-boot

Shared functionality between GHC and its boot libraries

Version on this page:8.6.4
LTS Haskell 24.28:9.10.3
Stackage Nightly 2026-01-17:9.12.3
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-8.6.4@sha256:8540c2da89d33b757d9738be08ad8dac1a4a2ee76b5780b4ac378a8a367bf9f1,1772

Module documentation for 8.6.4

Used by 5 packages in nightly-2019-04-21(full list with versions):
ghc, ghc-exactprint, ghci, hint, 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.

Changes

8.6.1 August 2018

  • Bundled with GHC 8.6.1

8.4.2 April 2018

  • Bundled with GHC 8.4.2

8.4.1 March 2018

  • Bundled with GHC 8.4.1

8.2.2 November 2018

  • Bundled with GHC 8.2.2

8.2.1 July 2017

  • Bundled with GHC 8.2.1

8.0.2 January 2017

  • Bundled with GHC 8.0.2

8.0.1 May 2016

  • Bundled with GHC 8.0.1

  • Initial version