Sean Leather:
I tried to build GHC "stable" on my two computers, a PowerBook G4 and a MacBook, both running 10.5.2. This is the first time I've ever tried, so I'm somewhat clueless about a lot of it. I went with the basic instructions (./configure; make) with no 'mk/build.mk' and no configure options other than '--prefix'. [..] The MacBook build apparently completed stage1 and failed in trying to build stage2 (i.e. "-o stage2/ghc-inplace").
I can't help you with the PPC, but on the MacBook try building with make EXTRA_AR_ARGS=-s It's a known bug with Cabal. Manuel
------------------------------------------------ x86 build output ------------------------------------------------
../compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace -no-user-package-conf -cpp stage2/ghc-inplace.c -o stage2/ghc-inplace
ld: in /Users/leather/Projects/ghc-stable/ghc/libraries/haskell98/ dist/build/libHShaskell98-1.0.1.0.a, archive has no table of contents
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [stage2/ghc-inplace] Error 1 make[1]: *** [stage2] Error 2 make: *** [bootstrap2] Error 2