Hi buddies. I've been looking for methods to bootstrap GHC 6.10 but with no luck. It seems GHC 5.0 is the last version that provides HC source for bootstrapping. I think, however, bootstrapping GHC above 6.x is still necessary.

  First, it will be easier to build GHC on a new platform, eg, OpenSolaris. By now I succeed building GHC 6.10.4 on OpenSolaris(x86), with the help of GHC 6.6 binary package for Solaris x86 by Christian Maeder. But that was a terrible procedure. I have to deal with bins and libs for two versions of GHC.

  Second, compiling GHC from strap is the only way to go into OpenSolaris' official package repository, since all packages for OpenSolaris are built by Source Juicer (http://jucr.opensolaris.org/home/) from pure source code, and there can't be any pre-installed GHC on Source Juicer Build Grid.

 

Cheers,

 

Wu Shu