On 03 August 2005 08:06, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote:

I tried to make ghc-6.4.1.20050801-src.tar.bz2

with ghc-cvs-6.4.1-july-12 on Debian Linux.

( > uname -m i686

...

uname -r 2.4.27-2-686-smp ).

It reports

--------------------------------- ... System/Directory/Internals.hs:1:0: conflict: module `System.Directory.Internals' belongs to the current program/library and also to package base-1.0 <<ghc: 19592712 bytes, 5 GCs, 79280/79280 avg/max bytes residency (1 samples), 16M in use, 0.01 INIT (0.00 elapsed), 0.11 MUT (0.33 elapsed), 0.10 GC (0.09 elapsed) :ghc>> make[4]: *** [System/Directory/Internals.o] Error 1 ---------------------------------

Should I install ghc-6.4.1.20050801-binary and then compile its source?

Yes, please try building with either 6.4 or the latest 6.4.1. There may be intermediate stages that have problems. Cheers, Simon