newbie: building ghc

Hi, Sorry for the newbie question ... I'm trying to build the compiler and I'm getting the following error: [root@quark ghc-6.4.1]# ./configure --prefix=/usr/pkg checking build system type... i386-pc-solaris2.10 checking host system type... i386-pc-solaris2.10 checking target system type... i386-pc-solaris2.10 Canonicalised to: i386-unknown-solaris2 checking for path to top of build tree... /usr/pkg/src/ghc-6.4.1 checking for ghc... no checking for nhc... no checking for nhc98... no checking for hbc... no configure: error: GHC is required unless bootstrapping from .hc files. Does this somehow mean that I need the compiler in order to build the compiler? Thanks, Mark