In local.glasgow-haskell-users, you wrote:
I'm trying to compile the latest version of GHC from CVS. I followed the instructions on GHC's web page and everything worked just fine. But when I updated the sources with "cvs update -dP" as instructed, CVS checked-out pretty much everything the CVS repository carries. (Is that supposed to happen? The CVS cheat sheet suggests that only "ghc", "libraries", and "hslibs" would be used/required.)
Where did you find those instructions? The CVS Cheat Sheat is quite clear on the matter, in fact I couldn't find "-dP" in the entire page. "-d" (don't --want to ;)-- know what the "P" does) at least checks out any subdirectories, which, after getting fpconfig, is indeed the entire tree :) After getting fpconfig, 'cvs checkout ghc hslibs libraries' (if you have 'happy' installed, otherwise you need this as well, 'haddock' might be useful, too). [I guess we should really add those two to the list]
So, when I tried to compile again -- now with _everything_ in the source tee --, the build fails here:
You probably won't need greencard anyway, so maybe it's best to wipe it from the disk (and all the other unrelated stuff). Or simply enter the ghc-director 'make boot all', then go to fptools/libraries, 'make all', and do the same in fptools/hslibs. Regards, Volker -- http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/stolz/ *** PGP *** S/MIME rage against the finite state machine