I have tried do build ghc-5.00.2 from .hc files. I run ditrib/hc-build, but it fails:

-------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- ===fptools== Finished making `all' in cbits ... PWD = /tmp/ghc-5.00.2/hslibs/lang -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- make[1]: *** No rule to make target `Addr.o', needed by `libHSlang.a'. Stop. make: *** [all] Error 1 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/ghc-5.00.2/hslibs'

My box is ix86 running Linux (but I could not use binary version of ghc). Could you tell me what I should do to compile it from .hc files ?

Building from .hc files is not very well supported, and is a highly involved process in 5.xx. If you really can't use any of the binary distributions, I suggest starting from 4.08.2 which should be a lot smoother to bootstrap from .hc files. Cheers, Simon