From: Michael Vanier <mvanier@cs.caltech.edu> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:06:40 -0700 (PDT)
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). I 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). 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?
Thanks in advance,
Mike
Some more information (sorry for omitting it): running distrib/hc-build gives me this message: ==fptools== make boot -wr; in /home/mvanier/ghc/ghc-6.4/libraries/base ------------------------------------------------------------------------ make[1]: *** No rule to make target `System/CPUTime_hsc.c', needed by `depend'. Stop. make: *** [boot] Error 1 make: Leaving directory `/home/mvanier/ghc/ghc-6.4/libraries' There doesn't appear to be a file CPUTime_hsc.c in the distribution. Mike