Well, I gave it a blast anyway. All went well creating the hc files until the last command:
$ make hc-file-bundle Project=Ghc
at which point it failed with tar czf ghc-6.4.1-x86_64-unknown-linux-hc.tar.gz `cat hc-files-to-go` tar: ghc-6.4.1/ghc/rts/AutoApply_thr.hc: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: ghc-6.4.1/ghc/rts/AutoApply_thr_p.hc: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: ghc-6.4.1/ghc/rts/AutoApply_debug.hc: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors make: *** [hc-file-bundle] Error 2 Googling suggests this might be harmless, so I tried bootstrapping on the target machine using the created tarball, but that failed with /bin/ld: cannot find -lghccompat collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [stage1/ghc-6.4.1] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 1 make: Leaving directory `/home/andrew/test/ghc/bs/target/ghc-6.4.1/ghc' Any pointers gladly accepted! Andrew Walrond