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diff --git a/hadrian/bootstrap/README.md b/hadrian/bootstrap/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c82ace0669 --- /dev/null +++ b/hadrian/bootstrap/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +# Bootstrapping hadrian + +These scripts are originally from the cabal-install repo with a few +small tweaks. + +This utility allows you to build hadrian without cabal-install, which can be useful +for packagers. If you are a developer then build hadrian using cabal-install. + +If you want to bootstrap with ghc-8.10.5 then run the ./bootstrap script with the +`plan-bootstrap-8.10.5.json` file. + + bootstrap.py -d plan-bootstrap-8.10.5.json -w /path/to-ghc + +The result of the bootstrap script will be a hadrian binary in +`_build/bin/hadrian`. + +There is a script (using nix) which can be used to generate the bootstrap plans for the range +of supported GHC versions using nix. + + generate_bootstrap_plans + +Otherwise you can run the commands in ./generate_bootstrap_plans directly. + |