ghc-boot

Shared functionality between GHC and its boot libraries

Version on this page:8.6.3
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-8.6.3@sha256:9e99a8bbca2312a23a6d2b642cae01cd5668de8e526391a37bd9ab1a3efbe594,1930
Used by 5 packages in nightly-2019-03-02(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.