Hi,
  Linuxmint Nadia, ghc-7.6.1 was built and running OK.
  Just downloaded ghc-7.6.2, without changing anything and environment, and boot and configure returned OK, I got these. What happened?

20130210Sun183147magicloud@ctu-9986008283~/s/ghc-7.6.2
$ make
+ test -f mk/config.mk.old
+ cp -p mk/config.mk mk/config.mk.old
touch -r mk/config.mk.old mk/config.mk
+ test -f mk/project.mk.old
+ cp -p mk/project.mk mk/project.mk.old
touch -r mk/project.mk.old mk/project.mk
+ test -f compiler/ghc.cabal.old
+ cp -p compiler/ghc.cabal compiler/ghc.cabal.old
touch -r compiler/ghc.cabal.old compiler/ghc.cabal
===--- building phase 0
make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=0 phase_0_builds
libraries/hpc/ghc.mk:3: libraries/hpc/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such file or directory
libraries/Cabal/Cabal/ghc.mk:3: libraries/Cabal/Cabal/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such file or directory
libraries/binary/ghc.mk:3: libraries/binary/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such file or directory
libraries/bin-package-db/ghc.mk:3: libraries/bin-package-db/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such file or directory
libraries/hoopl/ghc.mk:3: libraries/hoopl/dist-boot/package-data.mk: No such file or directory
compiler/ghc.mk:450: compiler/stage1/package-data.mk: No such file or directory
utils/hsc2hs/ghc.mk:14: utils/hsc2hs/dist/package-data.mk: No such file or directory
ghc/ghc.mk:106: ghc/stage1/package-data.mk: No such file or directory
mkdir inplace
mkdir inplace/bin
"rm" -f utils/ghc-pkg/Version.hs
mkdir inplace/lib
echo "module Version where"                    >> utils/ghc-pkg/Version.hs
"rm" -f inplace/bin/mkdirhier
echo "version, targetOS, targetARCH :: String" >> utils/ghc-pkg/Version.hs
echo "version    = \"7.6.2\""      >> utils/ghc-pkg/Version.hs
echo '#!/bin/sh'                 >> inplace/bin/mkdirhier
echo "targetOS   = \"linux\""        >> utils/ghc-pkg/Version.hs
cat utils/mkdirhier/mkdirhier.sh >> inplace/bin/mkdirhier
echo "targetARCH = \"x86_64\""      >> utils/ghc-pkg/Version.hs
chmod +x inplace/bin/mkdirhier
"inplace/bin/mkdirhier" utils/ghc-cabal/dist/build/tmp//.
"inplace/bin/mkdirhier" bootstrapping/.
"inplace/bin/mkdirhier" inplace/bin//.
"inplace/bin/mkdirhier" compiler/stage1/build//.
"inplace/bin/mkdirhier" utils/ghc-pkg/dist/build/tmp//.
"inplace/bin/mkdirhier" inplace/lib/package.conf.d/.
"/usr/local/bin/ghc" -H32m -O --make utils/ghc-cabal/Main.hs -o utils/ghc-cabal/dist/build/tmp/ghc-cabal \
               -no-user-package-db \
               -Wall \
               -DCABAL_VERSION=1,16,0 \
               -odir  bootstrapping \
               -hidir bootstrapping \
               -ilibraries/Cabal/Cabal \
               -ilibraries/filepath \
               -ilibraries/hpc \

"rm" -f compiler/stage1/build/Config.hs
Creating compiler/stage1/build/Config.hs ...
done.

libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/ParseUtils.hs:88:18:
    Could not find module `Data.Map'
    It is a member of the hidden package `containers-0.5.0.0'.
    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
make[1]: *** [utils/ghc-cabal/dist/build/tmp/ghc-cabal] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

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