Am Sonntag, 28. August 2005 07:06 schrieb Michael Vanier:
Right now, the Debian unstable package for GHC 6.4 won't install due to some conflict with libgmp3 (the package maintainer has been notified).
But the unstable package works with Debian stable. :-)
tried to compile the sources from scratch but found out that GHC requires a previously-existing version of itself to compile. I have hugs working fine, but configuring using --enable-hc-boot --with-hc=/usr/bin/hugs doesn't work (the configure completes but the compile fails very quickly).
/usr/bin/hugs is the interactive system. So to use Hugs, you would have to use /usr/bin/runhugs. But I'm rather sure that GHC cannot be compiled with Hugs.
Has anyone managed to get this working? I'm actually somewhat surprised that there isn't a bootstrap-from-gcc-only mode available like there is in ocaml; what are the issues?
There C files available which are machine-generated from the Haskell files. You probably have to download a different bundle.
Thanks in advance,
Mike
Best regards, Wolfgang