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Re:Exploratory Haskell (2015) by nilkn on Sunday November 20, 2016 @11:17AM (#12999531)
That's an interesting point. I've never tried to build it directly from source. I'm not sure if this actually addresses what you want to do, but maybe you could start with the prebuilt binaries and then do `stack upgrade`, which will fetch and build the latest release from source?

I will say that I won't touch the Haskell platform with a 10 foot pole. I had nothing but issues with it in the past and it drove me away from using Haskell for years prior to finding stack.

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Re:Exploratory Haskell (2015) by progman on Sunday November 20, 2016 @12:54PM (#13000084)
> start with the prebuilt binaries and then do `stack upgrade`

Thanks but in this case I could also download the newest binaries instantly. The point is that I don't want to be dependent on any binaries. Compilation from scratch doesn't work.

Btw Rust has the same problem - it also depends on binary upgrades. Nim (nim-lang.org) proves how easy self-hosting can be - which also means how easy porting to other platforms can be.

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