Anders Höckersten wrote:
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There are some debian packages of ghc 6.2.2 and related stuff for amd64 located here: http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64/pool/unstable/main/amd64/g/ghc6/


Hopefully you can find some way to convert these to a format you can install (there are programs for converting debian packages to rpms I think, but I can't remember what they are called - google is your friend).


After installing this binary, bootstrapping an (at least unregistered) amd64 ghc 6.4 should be possible.

Cheers,
Anders

Thanks a lot! For anyone who runs into the same problem, here is what I did:


1. Converted to an rpm via "alien -r ghc6_6.2.2-3_amd64.deb"
2. Installed the resulting rpm.
3. When I tried to run ghc6, I got

/usr/lib/ghc-6.2.2 # /usr/bin/ghc6
ghc-6.2.2: Can't find package.conf as /usr/lib/ghc-6.2.2/ghc/driver/package.conf.inplace


Other similar errors cropped up while trying to bootstrap. So, some crude symlink hackery:

cd /usr/lib/ghc-6.2.2
ln -s . ghc
ln -s . driver
ln -s package.conf.shipped package.conf.inplace
# now we have a /usr/lib/ghc-6.2.2/ghc/driver/package.conf.inplace

mkdir utils
ln -s .. utils/unlit
# now we have a /usr/lib/ghc-6.2.2/utils/unlit/unlit

ln -s ghc6 /usr/bin/ghc
# so ./configure finds ghc

This has gotten me quite a ways into the 6.2.2 compile; I'm still waiting to see if it completes successfully.

Brian

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