Anders Höckersten wrote: ...
There are some debian packages of ghc 6.2.2 and related stuff for amd64 located here: http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64/pool/unstable/main/amd64/g/ghc6...
Hopefully you can find some way to convert these to a format you can install (there are programs for converting debian packages to rpms I think, but I can't remember what they are called - google is your friend).
After installing this binary, bootstrapping an (at least unregistered) amd64 ghc 6.4 should be possible.
Cheers, Anders
Thanks a lot! For anyone who runs into the same problem, here is what I did: 1. Converted to an rpm via "alien -r ghc6_6.2.2-3_amd64.deb" 2. Installed the resulting rpm. 3. When I tried to run ghc6, I got /usr/lib/ghc-6.2.2 # /usr/bin/ghc6 ghc-6.2.2: Can't find package.conf as /usr/lib/ghc-6.2.2/ghc/driver/package.conf.inplace Other similar errors cropped up while trying to bootstrap. So, some crude symlink hackery: cd /usr/lib/ghc-6.2.2 ln -s . ghc ln -s . driver ln -s package.conf.shipped package.conf.inplace # now we have a /usr/lib/ghc-6.2.2/ghc/driver/package.conf.inplace mkdir utils ln -s .. utils/unlit # now we have a /usr/lib/ghc-6.2.2/utils/unlit/unlit ln -s ghc6 /usr/bin/ghc # so ./configure finds ghc This has gotten me quite a ways into the 6.2.2 compile; I'm still waiting to see if it completes successfully. Brian