Thanks for your help on this. I can't quite see how you got what you did. I followed the instructions in the cvs cheat sheet.

211 export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@glass.cse.ogi.edu:/cvs 213 cvs login 216 cvs co -r ghc-5-02 fpconfig ^^^^^^^^ You want ghc-5-02-branch to get the latest code on the branch. The ghc-5-02 tag corresponds to GHC 5.02 exactly.

217 cd fptools/ 225 cvs checkout ghc 226 cvs checkout hslibs

Here you checked out the the latest ghc and hslibs from the HEAD, when you really want the branch versions of these modules. Use either 'cvs update -d', or 'cvs checkout -rghc-5-02-branch' instead. Don't worry too much about this: CVS can be pretty confusing at times. Cheers, Simon