Tim Hemel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to make a port skeleton for the BSD ports selection for GHC.
Good idea - I keep meaning to get around to this.
> When configuring, I get the following messages:
>
> : : :
> checking for gzip... /usr/bin/gzip
> checking for happy... no
> checking for version of happy...
> Happy version 1.4 or later is required to compile GHC.
>
> So, I check the Happy web page:
>
> Downloading Happy
>
> To compile Happy from source, you'll need GHC version 2.10 or later. The
> source is here:
>
> ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/happy/happy-1.5-src.tar.gz
>
> How do I get out of this mutual recursion?
You start off with a binary distribution of one of the packages.
You'll need GHC installed in order to compile GHC in any case, so I
suggest you make up two packages - ghc-3.02-bin and ghc-3.02. The
binary distribution package should be straightforward, just a
configure and make install.
Having a build-from-source GHC port will really make the BSD folks
happy - I hear they regularly build the entire packages collection :-)
Cheers,
Simon
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Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Glasgow http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~simonm/
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