Donnie Jones wrote:
Hello Simon and Colin,
This information is available on the Prequisites page of the GHC wiki; however, it's buried at the bottom of the page. I have updated the page to mention that a stable release version of GHC is needed when setting up for Linux and Windows, and I have changed the "Other" section to be called "Details" since this section describes in detail the software necessary for building GHC.
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Prerequisites
Thanks Donnie. I've also just modified the configure script so it issues the following helpful message: configure: error: /home/simonmar/builds/testing/ghc/stage2-inplace/ghc is a development snapshot of GHC, version 6.11 Bootstrapping using this version of GHC is not supported, and may not work. Use --enable-bootstrap-with-devel-snapshot to try it anyway, or --with-ghc to specify a different GHC to use. Cheers, Simon