Simon Marlow wrote:
[ snipped ] You actually need the .hc source files too, which don't come with the
On 22 February 2005 20:05, Brian Strand wrote: source distribution because they have to be built for each target platform.
That section of the Building Guide wasn't really clear enough on this issue, so sorry if that meant you wasted some time. We've since updated the instructions in the Building Guide.
For compiling GHC on a platform for which you don't already have a GHC binary, the Approved Method is to go through the unregisterised bootstrap instructions in section 10.2. It's possible to do a registerised bootstrap, which would be shorter, but we haven't tested and documented the procedure.
Cheers, Simon
Thanks, good to know; I'll read through 10.2 more carefully. I didn't think I'd need to cross-compile x86-linux to x86-linux. Would it be unreasonable to include the unregisterised .hc files with a source distribution (or .hc files for "popular" platforms), so that a Haskell novice such as myself could do a "./configure && make && make install"? If configure detected no ghc, perhaps it could do the bootstrap automagically. Or is ghc/Haskell established enough that the existence of some Haskell compiler is taken for granted nowadays? Thanks again to everyone on the list for the helpful advice! Brian