Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Ticket #72773, comment 47


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Sep 30, 2025, 11:51:29 AM (11 months ago)
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cjones051073 (Chris Jones)
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  • Ticket #72773, comment 47

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    66> Just figure out which binary distribution runs on the latest macOS, and swap in the prebuilt binaries in place of the compiled build. A version of this is done in the {{{haskell-cabal}}} PG, where it’s necessary to use prebuilt binaries to bootstrap specific Haskell tools that are necessary to build the entire Haskell world.
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    8 Doing this by hand is very much not recommended, users should not be altering files inside the MacPorts install prefix by hand.
     8Doing this by hand is very much not recommended, users should not be altering files inside the MacPorts install prefix manually.
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    1010If this is a useful / necessary option then a +prebuilt variant of the ghc port which automates this should indeed be added (probably all that is needed is to override all the usual phases and just create a few sym links to the ghc-prebuilt binaries during destroot to mimic the regular ones).