Backport ghc-in-ghci patches to 8.8
This patch backports the ghc-in-ghci patches prepared by @mgsloan to the 8.8 branch. The main motivation is so that developers can use ghc-in-ghci with 8.8 as a boot compiler rather than having to wait for 8.10.
This patch backports the ghc-in-ghci patches prepared by @mgsloan to the 8.8 branch. The main motivation is so that developers can use ghc-in-ghci with 8.8 as a boot compiler rather than having to wait for 8.10.
Step 1. Fetch and check out the branch for this merge request
git fetch origin git checkout -b "wip/8-8-ghci" "origin/wip/8-8-ghci"
Step 2. Review the changes locally
Step 3. Merge the branch and fix any conflicts that come up
git fetch origin git checkout "origin/ghc-8.8" git merge --no-ff "wip/8-8-ghci"
Step 4. Push the result of the merge to GitLab
git push origin "ghc-8.8"
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This will create a new commit in order to revert the existing changes.