I've built ghc previously and I assumed to keep it up to date I just did darcs pull followed by make but I got errors and according to the rebuilding instructions http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Rebuilding I shouldn't have done that. I therefore followed the instructions but got the following error. By the way darcs-pull all seemed to require a lot of manual intervention. Is there a way of getting the latest patches automatically and building overnight without intervention? Thanks, Dominic.
if ifBuildable/ifBuildable /home/dom/ghc/libraries/boot-packages editline; then \ cd editline && \ cmp -s /home/dom/ghc/libraries/Makefile.local Makefile.local || cp /home/dom/ghc/libraries/Makefile.local .; \ mv GNUmakefile GNUmakefile.tmp; \ setup/Setup makefile -f GNUmakefile; \ cmp -s GNUmakefile GNUmakefile.tmp && mv GNUmakefile.tmp GNUmakefile; \ make -wr && \ setup/Setup register --inplace; \ fi mv: cannot stat `GNUmakefile': No such file or directory Preprocessing library editline-0.2... In file included from Editline.hsc:52: include/HsEditline.h:11: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘v’ compiling dist/build/System/Console/Editline_hsc_make.c failed command was: gcc -c -D__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=609 -I/home/dom/ghc/includes -I/home/dom/ghc/gmp/gmpbuild -D__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=609 -Iinclude dist/build/System/Console/Editline_hsc_make.c -o dist/build/System/Console/Editline_hsc_make.o make[2]: Entering directory `/home/dom/ghc/libraries/editline' make[2]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dom/ghc/libraries/editline' make[1]: *** [make.library.editline] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dom/ghc/libraries' make: *** [stage1] Error 2