Hello, I've been trying to learn Haskell. Some software isn't user friendly. But I think that a compiler requiring itself to compile is actively user hostile. I've spent over a week trying to get GHC to work on my Solaris workstation and I've concluded that it just isn't going to happen. I tried to compile GHC but it said taht it needed GHC to compile. I read the README trying to find out what people without ghc are supposed to do to install ghc. But no instructions are found. I check the website, hoping to find a binary. I find an old binary, but it just won't work. Something about libgcc_s.so.1. After a lot of work, I got another Haskell compiler, NHC98. Hoping that would do, I tried to compile GHC again. No luck. I read something about .hc files. I look everywhere in the source distribution, but no .hc files are to be found. I go back to the website. Read the building guide section on "porting" Why would I read that? I don't want to port it, I just want to compile it on a platform it's already been ported to. The porting page says that the source distribution has ANNOUNCE files that tell me where to get the .hc files. I wonder why it didn't just tell me directly, but oh well, I go back to the source distribution. It turns out the building guide was lying. The ANNOUCE file doesn't say anything about .hc files or where to get them. I find the file distrib/hc-build. I figure I might as well try it. Nothing to lose. But nope, that didn't do it either. At this point I really wonder why the compiler was designed this way instead of doing the configure; make; make install that everyone else does. It's not often that it takes me more than a week to compile a program. At this point I decide that I'll teach people Python instead of Haskell. I don't particularly like Python, but hey, it works. Best, Daniel.