I know this is somewhat related to something in the FAQ, but I'm having a bit of trouble building GHC from CVS source (gmake bootstrap). Stage 1 completes find and I get a ghc-inplace as I should. The last bit looks like: gmake[1]: Entering directory `/nfs/nlg/users/hdaume/ghc-cvs/ghc/compiler' ../../glafp-utils/mkdirhier/mkdirhier stage2 for i in utils basicTypes types hsSyn prelude rename typecheck deSugar coreSyn specialise simplCore stranal stgSyn simplStg codeGen absCSyn main profiling parser usageSP cprAnalysis compMan ndpFlatten nativeGen ghci; do \ ../../glafp-utils/mkdirhier/mkdirhier stage2/$i; \ done for i in */*hi-boot*; do \ gln -s -f ../../$i stage2/$i; \ done ../../ghc/compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace -M -optdep-f -optdep.depend-BASE -osuf o -I../includes -H64m -O0 -fno-warn-unused-matches -lbfd -liberty -iutils -ibasicTypes -itypes -ihsSyn -iprelude -irename -itypecheck -ideSugar -icoreSyn -ispecialise -isimplCore -istranal -istgSyn -isimplStg -icodeGen -iabsCSyn -imain -iprofiling -iparser -iusageSP -icprAnalysis -icompMan -indpFlatten -inativeGen -ighci -DGHCI -package haskell-src -package unix -package readline -cpp -fglasgow-exts -I. -IcodeGen -InativeGen -Iparser -recomp -DDEBUG -H16M '-#include "hschooks.h"' absCSyn/AbsCSyn.lhs absCSyn/AbsCUtils.lhs absCSyn/CLabel.lhs absCSyn/CStrings.lhs absCSyn/Costs.lhs absCSyn/MachOp.hs absCSyn/PprAbsC.lhs basicTypes/BasicTypes.lhs basicTypes/DataCon.lhs basicTypes/Demand.lhs basicTypes/FieldLabel.lhs basicTypes/Id.lhs basicTypes/IdInfo.lhs basicTypes/Literal.lhs basicTypes/MkId.lhs basicTypes/Module.lhs basicTypes/Name.lhs basicTypes/NameEnv.lhs basicTypes/NameSet.lhs basicTypes/NewDemand.lhs basicTypes/OccName.lhs basicTypes/RdrName.lhs basicTypes/SrcLoc.lhs basicTypes/UniqSupply.lhs basicTypes/Unique.lhs basicTypes/Var.lhs basicTypes/VarEnv.lhs basicTypes/VarSet.lhs codeGen/CgBindery.lhs codeGen/CgCase.lhs codeGen/CgClosure.lhs codeGen/CgCon.lhs codeGen/CgConTbls.lhs codeGen/CgExpr.lhs codeGen/CgHeapery.lhs codeGen/CgLetNoEscape.lhs codeGen/CgMonad.lhs codeGen/CgRetConv.lhs codeGen/CgStackery.lhs codeGen/CgTailCall.lhs codeGen/CgUpdate.lhs codeGen/CgUsages.lhs codeGen/ClosureInfo.lhs codeGen/CodeGen.lhs codeGen/SMRep.lhs compMan/CompManager.lhs coreSyn/CoreFVs.lhs coreSyn/CoreLint.lhs coreSyn/CorePrep.lhs coreSyn/CoreSyn.lhs coreSyn/CoreTidy.lhs coreSyn/CoreUnfold.lhs coreSyn/CoreUtils.lhs coreSyn/ExternalCore.lhs coreSyn/MkExternalCore.lhs coreSyn/PprCore.lhs coreSyn/PprExternalCore.lhs coreSyn/Subst.lhs cprAnalysis/CprAnalyse.lhs deSugar/Check.lhs deSugar/Desugar.lhs deSugar/DsBinds.lhs deSugar/DsCCall.lhs deSugar/DsExpr.lhs deSugar/DsForeign.lhs deSugar/DsGRHSs.lhs deSugar/DsListComp.lhs deSugar/DsMeta.hs deSugar/DsMonad.lhs deSugar/DsUtils.lhs deSugar/Match.lhs deSugar/MatchCon.lhs deSugar/MatchLit.lhs ghci/ByteCodeAsm.lhs ghci/ByteCodeFFI.lhs ghci/ByteCodeGen.lhs ghci/ByteCodeInstr.lhs ghci/ByteCodeItbls.lhs ghci/ByteCodeLink.lhs ghci/InteractiveUI.hs ghci/Linker.lhs ghci/ObjLink.lhs hsSyn/Convert.lhs hsSyn/HsBinds.lhs hsSyn/HsCore.lhs hsSyn/HsDecls.lhs hsSyn/HsExpr.lhs hsSyn/HsImpExp.lhs hsSyn/HsLit.lhs hsSyn/HsPat.lhs hsSyn/HsSyn.lhs hsSyn/HsTypes.lhs main/BinIface.hs main/CmdLineOpts.lhs main/CodeOutput.lhs main/Config.hs main/Constants.lhs main/DriverFlags.hs main/DriverMkDepend.hs main/DriverPhases.hs main/DriverPipeline.hs main/DriverState.hs main/DriverUtil.hs main/ErrUtils.lhs main/Finder.lhs main/GetImports.hs main/HscMain.lhs main/HscStats.lhs main/HscTypes.lhs main/Interpreter.hs main/Main.hs main/MkIface.lhs main/Packages.lhs main/ParsePkgConf.hs main/SysTools.lhs main/TidyPgm.lhs nativeGen/AbsCStixGen.lhs nativeGen/AsmCodeGen.lhs nativeGen/AsmRegAlloc.lhs nativeGen/MachCode.lhs nativeGen/MachMisc.lhs nativeGen/MachRegs.lhs nativeGen/PprMach.lhs nativeGen/RegAllocInfo.lhs nativeGen/Stix.lhs nativeGen/StixMacro.lhs nativeGen/StixPrim.lhs ndpFlatten/FlattenInfo.hs ndpFlatten/FlattenMonad.hs ndpFlatten/Flattening.hs ndpFlatten/NDPCoreUtils.hs ndpFlatten/PArrAnal.hs parser/Ctype.lhs parser/Lex.lhs parser/LexCore.hs parser/Parser.hs parser/ParserCore.hs parser/ParserCoreUtils.hs parser/RdrHsSyn.lhs prelude/ForeignCall.lhs prelude/PrelInfo.lhs prelude/PrelNames.lhs prelude/PrelRules.lhs prelude/PrimOp.lhs prelude/PrimRep.lhs prelude/TysPrim.lhs prelude/TysWiredIn.lhs profiling/CostCentre.lhs profiling/SCCfinal.lhs rename/RnBinds.lhs rename/RnEnv.lhs rename/RnExpr.lhs rename/RnHiFiles.lhs rename/RnHsSyn.lhs rename/RnIfaces.lhs rename/RnNames.lhs rename/RnSource.lhs rename/RnTypes.lhs simplCore/CSE.lhs simplCore/FloatIn.lhs simplCore/FloatOut.lhs simplCore/LiberateCase.lhs simplCore/OccurAnal.lhs simplCore/SAT.lhs simplCore/SATMonad.lhs simplCore/SetLevels.lhs simplCore/SimplCore.lhs simplCore/SimplMonad.lhs simplCore/SimplUtils.lhs simplCore/Simplify.lhs simplStg/SRT.lhs simplStg/SimplStg.lhs simplStg/StgStats.lhs specialise/Rules.lhs specialise/SpecConstr.lhs specialise/Specialise.lhs stgSyn/CoreToStg.lhs stgSyn/StgLint.lhs stgSyn/StgSyn.lhs stranal/DmdAnal.lhs stranal/SaAbsInt.lhs stranal/SaLib.lhs stranal/StrictAnal.lhs stranal/WorkWrap.lhs stranal/WwLib.lhs typecheck/Inst.lhs typecheck/TcBinds.lhs typecheck/TcClassDcl.lhs typecheck/TcDefaults.lhs typecheck/TcDeriv.lhs typecheck/TcEnv.lhs typecheck/TcExpr.lhs typecheck/TcForeign.lhs typecheck/TcGenDeriv.lhs typecheck/TcHsSyn.lhs typecheck/TcIfaceSig.lhs typecheck/TcInstDcls.lhs typecheck/TcMType.lhs typecheck/TcMatches.lhs typecheck/TcMonoType.lhs typecheck/TcPat.lhs typecheck/TcRnDriver.lhs typecheck/TcRnMonad.lhs typecheck/TcRnTypes.lhs typecheck/TcRules.lhs typecheck/TcSimplify.lhs typecheck/TcSplice.lhs typecheck/TcTyClsDecls.lhs typecheck/TcTyDecls.lhs typecheck/TcType.lhs typecheck/TcUnify.lhs types/Class.lhs types/FunDeps.lhs types/Generics.lhs types/InstEnv.lhs types/PprType.lhs types/TyCon.lhs types/Type.lhs types/TypeRep.lhs types/Variance.lhs usageSP/UConSet.lhs usageSP/UsageSPInf.lhs usageSP/UsageSPLint.lhs usageSP/UsageSPUtils.lhs utils/Bag.lhs utils/Binary.hs utils/BitSet.lhs utils/Digraph.lhs utils/FastMutInt.lhs utils/FastString.lhs utils/FastTypes.lhs utils/FiniteMap.lhs utils/ListSetOps.lhs utils/Maybes.lhs utils/OrdList.lhs utils/Outputable.lhs utils/Panic.lhs utils/Pretty.lhs utils/PrimPacked.lhs utils/StringBuffer.lhs utils/UnicodeUtil.lhs utils/UniqFM.lhs utils/UniqSet.lhs utils/Util.lhs ghc-5.05: unknown package name: readline gmake[1]: *** [depend] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/nfs/nlg/users/hdaume/ghc-cvs/ghc/compiler' gmake: *** [stage2] Error 2 106.14u 97.45s 5:15.85 64.4% (sorry for the long clig), but the basic problem is this missing package readline. if i run ghc/compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace -v, I get the following packages: data, hssource, net, text, util, posix, concurrent, lang, unix, haskell-src, network, haskell98, base, rts but no readline. now, if i *remove* the '-package readline' from that commandline, it builds properly. is this needed? -- Hal Daume III "Computer science is no more about computers | hdaume@isi.edu than astronomy is about telescopes." -Dijkstra | www.isi.edu/~hdaume