> From: Wolfgang Jeltsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 16:14:26 +0200 > > Am Sonntag, 28. August 2005 07:06 schrieb Michael Vanier: > > Right now, the Debian unstable package for GHC 6.4 won't install due to > > some conflict with libgmp3 (the package maintainer has been notified). > > But the unstable package works with Debian stable. :-)
And testing, but I'm hoping to avoid that ;-) > > > tried to compile the sources from scratch but found out that GHC requires a > > previously-existing version of itself to compile. I have hugs working > > fine, but configuring using --enable-hc-boot --with-hc=/usr/bin/hugs > > doesn't work (the configure completes but the compile fails very quickly). > > /usr/bin/hugs is the interactive system. So to use Hugs, you would have to > use /usr/bin/runhugs. But I'm rather sure that GHC cannot be compiled with > Hugs. Maybe I'll try it, but I think you're probably right. > > > Has anyone managed to get this working? I'm actually somewhat surprised > > that there isn't a bootstrap-from-gcc-only mode available like there is in > > ocaml; what are the issues? > > There C files available which are machine-generated from the Haskell files. > You probably have to download a different bundle. Right, and I could see which files should have generated them, but it didn't work in that case. Sounds like a bug -- I'll file a report. I did finally get GHC working from the binary distributions, and then spent a couple of happy hours (successfully) recompiling GHC from scratch ;-), so I'm all set now. A big thanks to everyone who prepares the binary distributions (and to the entire GHC team, of course). Mike _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
