Hi Nick,
I just installed GHC 5.02.2 (actually, the latest version from CVS), and had a strange problem. My first attempt worked ok, but I screwed something up, so I junked it and started again from scratch.
This time, it died part-way through the "make boot" step for ghc itself, because glafp-utils/mkdependC/mkdependC had not been built. To fix the problem I just went to that directory and made mkdependC myself first, and then recompiled from $(BUILD), which worked. Does anyone have any idea why mkdependC may not have been built in the first place?
Nothing springs to mind, unless you had explicitly set $(ProjectsToBuild) in your build.mk, and left out glafp-utils. It usually isn't necessary to set $(ProjectsToBuild) as it defaults to building all the projects in the current tree.
Also, when I try to compile for ticky-ticky profiling by setting GhcCompilerWays=t and GhcLibWays=t in $(BUILD)/mk/build.mk, and then running "make all" in $(BUILD), it compiles for a short time and then dies with this error message:
Just set GhcLibWays=t, you don't have to set GhcCompilerWays too (this is for building the compiler itself in a different way). Cheers, Simon