Dear All, I'm trying toupdate the Portfile so that ghc-6.8.2 can be built using MacPorts (handy for installing other ghc-dependent material from MacPorts like gtk2hs). The problem seems to be that the available bootstrap binary http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.6/ghc-6.6-i386-apple-darwin-bootstrap.tar.... causes a segfault on Leopard (below are the steps I took in my attempt to build ghc with this bootstrap binary). Using Manuel Chakravarty's binary distribution of ghc-6.8.1-i386-apple-darwin building ghc-6.8.2 works fine. It seemed to me that the easiest way to fix the bootstrap problem is to boot from C as described on the wiki (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting). Two things were wrong, however. make hc-file-bundle Making the hc-file-bundle target failed, because not all rts/*.cmm had rts/*.hc counterparts after the build. The make fails because of this fragment from the Makefile (part of the hc-file-bundle target, starting from line 513): for f in `$(FIND) ghc-$(ProjectVersion)/compiler ghc-$(ProjectVersion)/rts -name "*.cmm" -follow -print` ""; do \ if test "x$$f" !=3D "x"; then \ echo `echo "$$f" | sed 's/cmm$$/hc/g' ` >> hc-files-to-go ; \ fi; \ done; This adds some non-existing .hc files to the hc-files-to-go list that tar will not find, later on, causing an error. I just added a test to see whether the file exists. If it does not, I call make for that .hc file explicitly, which solves the problem for most files. The files that don't have a make target, I simply omitted from the hc-files-to-go. I haven't been able to test the severity of this, because of the second problem. sh -e ./distrib/hc-build --prefix=3D$HOME/src/testbuild [--enable-hc-boot [--enable-hc-boot-unregisterised]] As a minor bug wrt. the wiki page, the hc-build is not executable by default. The more serious problem seems to be that the cold-boot option of configure is broken, because it ends in the error: checking for ld... /usr/bin/ld checking for path to top of build tree... ./configure: line 2651: -v0: command not found ./configure: line 2655: utils/pwd/pwd: No such file or directory configure: error: cannot determine current directory Upon inspection of the configure script, I found out that line 2651 uses the variable designating the ghc compiler. Are these bugs or am I messing things up? Regards, Philip