On 21/08/13 15:44, Ryan Newton wrote:

Hi all,

Returning to the topic discussed by Simon M. and others here:

http://projects.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-platform/2009-July/000572.html

This is my attempt at a script for bootstrapping a GHC-validating VM:

http://parfunk.blogspot.com/2013/08/zero-to-ghc-development-in-ubuntu-vm-in.html

Let me know if there's a better way, or if you'd like to help get this
kind of thing into an even more accessible form (Amazon AMI, Chef
recipe, etc).

I do this occasionally with an Amazon VM.  Incidentally, why did you download the GHC 7.6.3 tarball rather than apt-get install ghc?  The current GHC on Ubuntu is 7.4 which is enough to bootstrap GHC HEAD.

Cheers,
        Simon