I've just tried to build GHC 4.06 from the ix86 .hc file distribution.
It all went swimmingly until near the end when I got the following error:
$ autoconf
$ configure --enable-hc-boot
$ make boot
$ make all
[...]
./driver/ghc-inplace -o hsc -cpp -fglasgow-exts -Rghc-timing -I. -IcodeGen
-InativeGen -Iparser
-iutils:basicTypes:types:hsSyn:prelude:rename:typecheck:deSugar:coreSyn:specialise:simplCore:stranal:stgSyn:simplStg:codeGen:absCSyn:main:profiling:parser:usageSP:cprAnalysis:nativeGen
-recomp -no-link-chk utils/Argv.o utils/Bag.o utils/BitSet.o ... [link line
trimmed] ...
/usr/i386-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot open -lHSlang: No such file or directory
Any ideas?
Regards,
Malcolm