At 9:52 am +0000 7/3/01, Reuben Thomas wrote:

(Even more confusing is that our advice has changed recently, and used to be much more similar to Nigel's...)

I have compiled up to 4.08.1 (or .2 not sure offhand), if Reuben's advice has changed for later versions then follow them in preference to my experience. As to sed failing - it first happened on a PC in the room next to Ruben's where I was visiting at the time... But these little things are easy to forget in the huge job of compiling GHC - I keep forgetting and wonder why it has broken! Cheers, Nigel