Re: Unable to compile ghc from darcs

Colin Paul Adams wrote:

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"Donnie" == Donnie Jones writes:

Donnie> Hello Colin, In my working with GHC, I have found this Donnie> page very helpful since it succinctly outlines the steps Donnie> for Rebuilding GHC and ensuring you are up-to-date with Donnie> everything GHC needs: Donnie> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Rebuilding

Thanks.

I did this and it cured the TH problems, but I still have haddock problems:

src/Haddock/Backends/Html.hs:1495:4: Ambiguous occurrence `maybeParen' It could refer to either `Haddock.Backends.Html.maybeParen', defined at src/Haddock/Backends/Html.hs:1462:0 or `GHC.maybeParen', imported from GHC at src/Haddock/Backends/Html.hs:42:0-39

src/Haddock/Backends/Html.hs:1511:4: Ambiguous occurrence `maybeParen' It could refer to either `Haddock.Backends.Html.maybeParen', defined at src/Haddock/Backends/Html.hs:1462:0 or `GHC.maybeParen', imported from GHC at src/Haddock/Backends/Html.hs:42:0-39

src/Haddock/Backends/Html.hs:1515:4: Ambiguous occurrence `maybeParen' It could refer to either `Haddock.Backends.Html.maybeParen', defined at src/Haddock/Backends/Html.hs:1462:0 or `GHC.maybeParen', imported from GHC at src/Haddock/Backends/Html.hs:42:0-39

src/Haddock/Backends/Html.hs:1532:4: Ambiguous occurrence `maybeParen' It could refer to either `Haddock.Backends.Html.maybeParen', defined at src/Haddock/Backends/Html.hs:1462:0 or `GHC.maybeParen', imported from GHC at src/Haddock/Backends/Html.hs:42:0-39

Are you using a build tree made with lndir? If you, you probably want to link the _darcs directory from your source tree into your build tree. This will enable configure to generate a more accurate version number, which will probably fix the compile problem with Haddock. Cheers, Simon