On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 03:23:54PM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
First thing to note is that bootstrapping from HC files has bitrotted in 6.8.x, see http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1346. I've updated the wiki instructions to say this. You should go back to 6.6.x, or be prepared to fix things... I thought I remembered someone saying recently they were looking into getting bootstrapping working again, but I can't seem to find it now.
That may be me. I've some local patches for obvious offending stuff (like utils/pwd or libraries/ifBuildable), and similar more or less trivia in libraries/Makefile, but I didn't yet even hit the problems I expect for the GNUmakefiles generated by cabal (which I tend to include in a pre-build HC file bundle), not speaking of *real* problems that may (will?) happen on the HC files themselves when all the make issues have been fixed. I asked igloo the other day, and now I ask here: if anyone has *any* attempts for the make problems, even if they don't work, just mail your diffs to me. No promises, no timeline[1], but I really want to get HC bootstrapping back. Ciao, Kili [1] Everytime I expect to have some more time to work on things I want to work on, something bad happens that stops me from doing so. At least within the last 14 months.