Hi DUncan,
Thanks for the help.
I've installed a ghc compiler on my Linux box in order to cross-compile and
I'm getting the following error. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Mark
/usr/bin/ghc -H16m -O -H32m -istage1/utils -istage1/basicTypes
-istage1/types -istage1/hsSyn -istage1/prelude -istage1/rename
-istage1/typecheck -istage1/deSugar -istage1/coreSyn -istage1/specialise
-istage1/simplCore -istage1/stranal -istage1/stgSyn -istage1/simplStg
-istage1/codeGen -istage1/main -istage1/profiling -istage1/parser
-istage1/cprAnalysis -istage1/compMan -istage1/ndpFlatten -istage1/iface
-istage1/cmm -Istage1 -DOMIT_NATIVE_CODEGEN -cpp -fglasgow-exts
-fno-generics -Rghc-timing -I. -IcodeGen -InativeGen -Iparser -package unix
-ignore-package lang -recomp -Rghc-timing -O -H16M '-#include "hschooks.h"'
-i../lib/compat -ignore-package Cabal -c codeGen/SMRep.lhs -o
stage1/codeGen/SMRep.o -ohi stage1/codeGen/SMRep.hi
codeGen/SMRep.lhs:283:45: Not in scope: `sIZEOF_StgArrWords_NoHdr'
codeGen/SMRep.lhs:286:45: Not in scope: `sIZEOF_StgMutArrPtrs_NoHdr'
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On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 17:22 -0500, Mark Greenbank wrote:
Hi,
Sorry for the newbie question ... I'm trying to build the compiler and I'm getting the following error:
[root@quark ghc-6.4.1]# ./configure --prefix=/usr/pkg checking build system type... i386-pc-solaris2.10 checking host system type... i386-pc-solaris2.10 checking target system type... i386-pc-solaris2.10 Canonicalised to: i386-unknown-solaris2 checking for path to top of build tree... /usr/pkg/src/ghc-6.4.1 checking for ghc... no checking for nhc... no checking for nhc98... no checking for hbc... no configure: error: GHC is required unless bootstrapping from .hc files.
Does this somehow mean that I need the compiler in order to build the compiler?
Generally yes.
You should start with a binary version of ghc and if you like you can then use that to rebuild from source (or to build a newer version).
This is how it works with most of the source based distros (eg Gentoo, FreeBSD). Another possibility is to boot from .hc files but if there is a binary available for your platform then that's the easiest method.
I see you're using Solaris on x86. I recall someone on this list having got it bootstrapped before. If no one does have a build available then you'll need to follow these porting instructions:
http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.4.1/html/building/sec-porting-ghc.html#sec-boo...
It should be possible to make it work since there are builds for Solaris on sparc and for other OSs on x86 and x86_64.
Duncan