On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 17:22 -0500, Mark Greenbank wrote:
Hi,
Sorry for the newbie question ... I'm trying to build the compiler and I'm getting the following error:
[root@quark ghc-6.4.1]# ./configure --prefix=/usr/pkg checking build system type... i386-pc-solaris2.10 checking host system type... i386-pc-solaris2.10 checking target system type... i386-pc-solaris2.10 Canonicalised to: i386-unknown-solaris2 checking for path to top of build tree... /usr/pkg/src/ghc-6.4.1 checking for ghc... no checking for nhc... no checking for nhc98... no checking for hbc... no configure: error: GHC is required unless bootstrapping from .hc files.
Does this somehow mean that I need the compiler in order to build the compiler?
Generally yes. You should start with a binary version of ghc and if you like you can then use that to rebuild from source (or to build a newer version). This is how it works with most of the source based distros (eg Gentoo, FreeBSD). Another possibility is to boot from .hc files but if there is a binary available for your platform then that's the easiest method. I see you're using Solaris on x86. I recall someone on this list having got it bootstrapped before. If no one does have a build available then you'll need to follow these porting instructions: http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.4.1/html/building/sec-porting-ghc.html#sec-boo... It should be possible to make it work since there are builds for Solaris on sparc and for other OSs on x86 and x86_64. Duncan