Improve documentation for cross compilation

[chitrak7]

In the documentation for building cross-compiling GHC, the steps mentioned are : git clone https://github.com/ghc/ghc cd ghc git clone https://github.com/snowleopard/hadrian

this step will result in an error at multiple sub-repositories with the error similar this : fatal: repository 'https://github.com/ghc/packages/deepseq.git/' not found.

It is because of GitHub's policy to not include '/' in names. This can be easily removed by the following command. git config --global url."https://github.com/ghc/packages-".insteadOf https://github.com/ghc/packages/

I think this should be included in the documentation.

@snowleopard Also, if this change is approved, can I put the PR myself?

[snowleopard]

@chitrak7 Yes, sure, go ahead! Documentation improvements are very welcome. Please coordinate with @angerman and @izgzhen who are taking care of cross compilation. I myself will not be able to properly review the suggested changes, since I've never done cross compilation.

Also note that @angerman and @alpmestan are working on a huge PR that improves cross compilation: #445. We hope to merge this PR soon, so some things may be changing soon.

[izgzhen]

this step will result in an error at multiple sub-repositories with the error similar this : fatal: repository 'https://github.com/ghc/packages/deepseq.git/' not found.

BTW, I tried the newest source today, and met some problems finding submodule like Cabal. I fixed it by cloning from haskell.org instead of github.

[angerman]

I would strongly suggest removing any mention of cloning GHC from github.

[izgzhen]

I would strongly suggest removing any mention of cloning GHC from github.

Agreed