At Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:12:15 +0100, Daniel Horecki wrote: > > Marko Schütz wrote: > > you may want to look at xmonad: its configuration is in a Haskell > > source file and when it (re)starts it looks whether that has been > > updated. If so, it compiles the config source and (re)links itself... > > > > http://xmonad.org/ > > > > Isn't xmonad limited to i386 thanks to ghc? thanks to lang/ghc, but not thanks to ghc itself. The reason lang/ghc is currently limited to i386 is that bootstrapping ghc requires a Haskell compiler. The approach taken is to use intermediate C code from a build of an older version, translate that to a Haskell compiler and then use that Haskell compiler to compile the more recent version of ghc. The intermediate C code used is for i386. But ghc itself is not so limited. Best regards, Marko
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