From: Wolfgang Jeltsch <wolfgang@jeltsch.net> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 16:14:26 +0200
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. :-)
And testing, but I'm hoping to avoid that ;-)
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.
Maybe I'll try it, but I think you're probably right.
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.
Right, and I could see which files should have generated them, but it didn't work in that case. Sounds like a bug -- I'll file a report. I did finally get GHC working from the binary distributions, and then spent a couple of happy hours (successfully) recompiling GHC from scratch ;-), so I'm all set now. A big thanks to everyone who prepares the binary distributions (and to the entire GHC team, of course). Mike