The Glasgow Haskell Compiler is a state-of-the-art, open source, compiler and
interactive environment for the functional language Haskell. Highlights:
* Supports the entire Haskell 2010 language plus a wide variety of
extensions.
* Has particularly good support for concurrency and parallelism, including
support for Software Transactional Memory (STM).
* Generates fast code, particularly for concurrent programs.
* Works on several platforms including FreeBSD, Windows, Mac, Linux, most
varieties of Unix, and several different processor architectures.
* Has extensive optimisation capabilities, including inter-module optimisation.
* Compiles Haskell code either directly to native code or using LLVM as a
back-end. It can also generate C code as an intermediate target for porting
to new platforms. The interactive environment compiles Haskell to bytecode,
and supports execution of mixed bytecode/compiled programs.
* Profiling is supported, both by time/allocation and various kinds of heap
profiling.
* Comes with several libraries, and thousands more are available on Hackage.
WWW: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
===> The following configuration options are available for ghc862-8.6.2:
DOCS=on: Install HTML documentation
DYNAMIC=on: Add support for dynamic linking
GMP=on: Use GNU Multi-precision Library for big integers support
PROFILE=on: Add support for performance profiling
====> Bootsrap using installed ghc
BOOT=off: Use installed GHC for bootstrapping
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Merge lang/ghcXXX ports into lang/ghc.
Remove OPTIONS support from library Haskell ports.
Do not install documentation by library Haskell ports.
Remove deprecation notice from library ports, that still needed.
PR: 224083
Approved by: tcberner (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20247
Drop ARM support for GHC 8.4 and update bootstrap compilers to 8.6.3.
ARM support required LLVM 5, which is getting pushed out of ports.
Submitted by: Mikael Urankar <mikael.urankar@gmail.com>
Approved by: tcberner (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19722
