ghc-boot

Shared functionality between GHC and its boot libraries

Version on this page:	8.8.1
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-8.8.1@sha256:676f5e4d07ecbbf08b6f335feeacc17811b50b6c5812c3dc677d2e3c73acba8f,1821

Module documentation for 8.8.1

Depends on 6 packages(full list with versions):

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

Used by 4 packages in nightly-2020-01-15(full list with versions):

ghc, ghc-exactprint, ghci, hint

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