Unregistered build (was Re: AMD64)

[Simon Marlow]

On 02 June 2004 18:40, Bennett Todd wrote:

> I too would be happy with an unregistered build.
> 
> I've tried off and on to port ghc to my linux distro (uses static
> linking against uClibc, glibc isn't present at all). Every time I go
> through the process, I get stuck at the point where I seem to have a
> working unregistered build. I can't quite find the missing link to
> proceed on to a registered build, and "make install" on the
> unregistered build doesn't do anything.
> 
> Is there some special trick to get the unregistered build to make
> install?

You probably don't want to install the registerised build; just use it
to build a fresh tree:

  $ ./configure
--with-ghc=/unregisterised-build/ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace
  $ make

If your platform supports registerised compilation, then this *should*
just work.

Cheers,
	Simon