Hi Don,
Here is a (long) summary of how I have bootstraped GHC on various os/arch combinations using 6.0.1 .hc source, including getting an unregisterised build, over the weekend.
Thanks for all this. I recently went through the unregisterised bootstrap process myself (for amd64), and I've written some detailed instructions in the Building Guide - you might want to take a look and see if you have anything to add. For unregisterised bootstrapping, I don't recommend using hc-build. The resaon is that hc-build goes to some lengths to make a tree which is safe to 'make install' in, and this isn't necessary for bootstrapping - all you need to do is get to the "working compiler" stage, and then use this to build a completely fresh tree. I've applied your patches, with some small tweaks by myself to avoid breaking the unregisterised bootstrap, which is normally done with a compiler without interpreter support, hence the lack of the readline, haskell-src and other libraries. Cheers, Simon