On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:46:24PM -0700, Judah Jacobson wrote:
> Building against the HEAD currently fails (when configuring the stage1
> compiler) if you have editline already installed in your bootstrapping
> GHC:
> 
> Configuring ghc-6.9...
> cabal-bin: At least the following dependencies are missing:
> editline -any
> make[1]: *** [boot.stage.1] Error 1
> make: *** [stage1] Error 1

I don't understand - if your bootstrapping compiler has an editline
package, then why doesn't Cabal find it?

>   * #1389: Remove unused configure variable GhcHasEditline, which
> detects whether editline is installed in the bootstrapping compiler.
> That information is irrelevant since we never build ghci in the stage
> 1 compiler.

That's true; unless we want GHCi support in stage1 this can go.


Thanks
Ian

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