On 15 June 2004 14:18, Bennett Todd wrote:

2004-06-14T16:06:05 Simon Marlow:

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You probably don't want to install the registerised build; just use it to build a fresh tree:

$ ./configure --with-ghc=/unregisterised-build/ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace $ make

Everything was fine up to there, but "make" does nothing at all.

I followed the instructions for creating the ghc-6.2.1-i386-unknown-linux-hc.tar.gz (which I did on a Red Hat 8 system), then (on my uClibc-based, static linking system) ran

tar xjf ghc-6.2.1-src.tar.bz2 tar xzf ghc-6.2.1-i386-unknown-linux-hc.tar.gz cd ghc-6.2.1 ./configure --enable-hc-boot --enable-hc-boot-unregisterised --prefix=/usr ./distrib/hc-build --enable-hc-boot-unregisterised --prefix=/usr ./configure --with-ghc=`pwd`/ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace make

That last make didn't do anything.

After hc-build, you should unpack a completely fresh GHC source tree, somewhere else. Then 'cd' into this tree, and issue the configure/make commands. You're using the compiler you built originally, which is unregisterised and builds unregisterised binaries, to build a new compiler which will generate registerised binaries. Cheers, Simon