| * Could anyone with cvs/fptools/makefile-expertise lend me a hand | * if I try again to build only hslibs/win32 from cvs? Or is it --------------------------------^^^^ (only)
a) No it is not unreasonable to expect it to build, cleanly, starting from scratch. It jolly well ought to.
Ah, but (perhaps unlike Mike) I don't want to build from scratch, but *only* the hslibs/win32 directory.
You *might* be able to get away with just $ cd hslibs/win32; make HC=ghc to build with an installed GHC. But I say *might*, because (as Simon pointed out) for our own sanity, we only make sure that the libraries build with the current GHC and not every version of GHC ever released. Your chances are greatly improved if the GHC you build with is more recent. Cheers, Simon