>> Another possible solution is to ship our own bootstrap binary (like we
>> do with Guile and Bash).  But first, I’ll try to patch it.  Are you OK
>> with that?

> With shipping a binary of GHC?  Well, if that’s the only reasonable way
> to do it, then yes.

> GNU/MIT Scheme does that for instance, but that’s “their
> responsibility”, not ours.  Does the GHC project distribute binaries for
> bootstrapping purposes?

Yes.  Actually, I’m trying to package a binary version of GHC [1], but I
was talking about shipping ‘ghc-cabal’.

Again, I think that patching is a better solution.

[1] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.0.1/ghc-7.0.1-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2