On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:39:33PM +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
$ ghc/ghc-6.0.1/ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace ghc-6.0.1: no input files Usage: For basic information, try the `--help' option.
$ ghc/ghc-6.0.1/ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace hello.hs hello.hs:1: Failed to load interface for `Prelude': Could not find interface file for `Prelude' (use -v to see a list of the files searched for)
I'll solve this library thing, try and build a compiler. And then try a sparc.
I have found that I need to copy the library/ .hi files across, although Simon Marlow seemed to think that should be unnecessary. Also, ghc/driver/package.conf.inplace seems to become the empty list; I haven't bothered to look into this as it's easy enough just to copy ghc/driver/package.conf.inplace.old over the top of it. This isn't following the new docs online so YMMV.
Both good points, which I've missed out of the instructions. If you use hc-build, then you don't need to copy across the .hi files: they're built later, and similarly for the package.conf file. In light of this, I might amend the instructions to recommend using hc-build even for an unregisterised bootstrap, because copying across the .hi files isn't guaranteed to work when cross-compiling (I'm not certain that the .hi format is platform-independent enough). Cheers, Simon