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Boostrapping Gentoo ghc package
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gistfile1.txt
1) Build the Docker at https://github.com/gregwebs/ghc-docker-dev.git
for the target arch
2) Inside the Docker, make a manual build from the upstreams ghc
sources, with all the Debian patches applied, with a prefix of
/tmp/ghcfoo
3) Copy /tmp/ghcfoo from the Docker to the target system
4) Set up /etc/portage/env/dev-lang/ghc to add the ghc binary in
/tmp/ghcfoo to the path
5) Build the ebuild with USE=ghcbootstrap
6) Delete the /etc/portage/env file and rebuild the ebuild again, to
make sure the ghc built in 5) can bootstrap itself
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