On 8/19/06, Simon Peyton-Jones
I can't tell just what you are doing, but somehow you seem to be building a stage-2 compiler in stage1.
On compiler/Makefile we got ifeq "$(BootingFromHc)" "YES" # HC files are always from a self-booted compiler bootstrapped = YES else ifneq "$(findstring $(stage), 2 3)" "" bootstrapped = YES else bootstrapped = $(shell if (test $(GhcCanonVersion) -eq $(ProjectVersionInt) -a $(GhcPatchLevel) -eq $(ProjectPatchLevel)); then echo YES; else echo NO; fi) endif endif Which would turn bootstrapped=YES when building 6.5 with 6.5, even during stage1. And then ifeq "$(GhcWithInterpreter) $(bootstrapped)" "YES YES" and inside this if it also turns template-haskell on. It's a bit funny. It makes sense for end user not to need bootstrap compiler more than once - for example to build new set of libraries for ghc would be much faster, and bootstrapping holds no additional value. So, Joel, you might want to change your mk/Config.mk and lie about your ghc version a bit (you need to mod the file after configure). Say it's 6.4, and you might not need to unpull patches and you might get normal 2-stage bootstrap. Best regards, --Esa