Claus,
Ok, tried that (with the patches and with the include-modifications). It seems to run into a problem as well (haven't had time to look into this yet, but just in case you recognise the symptoms):
hmake-config: Starting new config from scratch. cannot create /tmp/hmakeconfig.1748: permission denied
Yuk. Is the existence of a writable /tmp something I can't assume on Cygwin/Windows either?
grep: /cygdrive/c/ghc/ghc-5.02.2/bin/ghc: No such file or directory
Ah, yes I think I remember reading once that GHC/mingw32 does not have a driver script, only a directly executable binary. Hence, grepping through the script for configuration information (as hmake-config is attempting to do here) is no longer an option. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any other way to reliably get config info out of GHC.
hmake-config: compiler not known: '/tmp/nhc98-1.12/script/nhc98'
This error is only due to the non-writable /tmp file, so it isn't so serious.
So did I, but GHC's move away from Cygwin to support a native Windows configuration seems to have broken several things that used to work.
Yeah, "never change a winning team", they say.
Sadly, the difficulty of using GHC/mingw32 as a bootstrapping compiler seems to be increasing the more we delve into it. Perhaps it would be safest for us simply to recommend GHC/cygwin instead, and disallow the GHC/mingw32 route. Regards, Malcolm