Re: ghc-5.04.3-1.src.rpm -i

Thanks for the help, we have built it once more, with interpreter. And its ghci seems to treat better the module import/export items. On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:08:44PM +1000, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:

"Simon Marlow" wrote,

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There's a hidden gotcha in the rpm spec file (the file which gives instructions for building) - it only does a stage1 build, whereas ghci needs a stage2 build. This is OK as long as it's understood by rpm builders that they need to build binary rpms using a previous install of 5.04.3. We could probably trick up the spec file to be clever and trigger a stage2 build if it's necessary.

For version 6.0, let's have the spec file do a stage2 build by default. It's much easier these days, you only need one source tree and just saying "make" at the top-level will cause a stage2 build to happen.

Yes, good point.

Cheers, Manuel