Hi GHC experts, As a non-root user of Redhat (amd64) RHEL 4.0 server, I can not use rpm. I like to install any relatively recent version of ghc to my local installation area just for learning. I downloaded first 64-bit binary archive that seems incompatible: For example, utils/pwd/pwd does not run. So I ended up downloading a src archive... % wget http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.10.1/ghc-6.10.1-src.tar.bz2 Then unpack and boot: % tar jxvf ghc-6.10.1-src.tar.bz2 % cd ghc-6.10.1 % sh boot So far so good, but the next step "configure" fails... no matter what args I give: % ./configure --prefix=<my_local_inst_top> configure: error: GHC is required unless bootstrapping from .hc files. After I edited mk/build.mk to uncomment BuildFlavour=quick, Gnu make fails : % make mk/boilerplate.mk:56: mk/config.mk: No such file or directory Understandably the unknown problem may have started in the configure stage. I'm stuck. Also I tried ghc-6.8.3-x86-64-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 that yields similar errors. Yet another desperate trial of darcs seems no help: downloaded... wget http://darcs.haskel.org/ghc-STABLE-2008-11-08-ghc-corelibs-testsuite.tar.bz2 tar jxvf ... darcs-all pull -a edited mk/build.mk sh boot ./configure then gmake fails. I would appreciate any help. Regards, TJ