Dear Ian, all, I'm getting a build error that I've seen before. I must be overlooking something. What I do: lzensp@ewi1043:~/local/src> curl http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.20070912-src.tar.bz2 | tar -xj % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time % Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 6893k 100 6893k 0 0 682k 0 0:00:10 0:00:10 --:--:-- 743k holzensp@ewi1043:~/local/src> cd ghc-6.8.20070912 holzensp@ewi1043:~/local/src/ghc-6.8.20070912> ./boot Booting . Booting libraries/base Booting libraries/directory /usr/share/aclocal/progsreiserfs.m4:13: warning: underquoted definition of AC_CHECK_LIBREISERFS run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal Booting libraries/old-time Booting libraries/process Booting libraries/readline Booting libraries/unix holzensp@ewi1043:~/local/src/ghc-6.8.20070912> ./configure && make [...] make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../includes/DerivedConstants.h', needed by `stage1/codeGen/CgProf.o'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/local/holzensp/src/ghc-6.8.20070912/compiler' make: *** [stage1] Error 1 Either this is a bugreport or a kind request for advice. Regards, Philip