Re: using a stage1 as a compiler for a later ghc?

Isaac Dupree wrote:

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I'm on a system with main ghc = 6.4.2. I've built a ghc 6.6 stage1. Is there any problem using that ghc-inplace as a compiler for GHC HEAD? (which is done e.g. by ./configure - --with-ghc=/home/isaac/hardly-mine-at-all/build/ghc-6.6/compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace ?)

(which I want to do because, theoretically 6.6 should be faster here, since it supports -fasm unlike the ubuntu-edgy-powerpc-ghc-6.4.2, and also considering how my gcc likes to crash randomly a few times during anything as extensive as compiling ghc...)

Sure, that should work. Cheers, Simon