GHC from CVS

[Jeffrey R. Lewis]

Marcus Shawcroft wrote:

> Ralf Hinze wrote:
>
> > It compiles just fine except that ghci is not built:
> > > ghci
> > ghc-5.00: not built for interactive use
> >
> > Do I have to specify this explicitly?
> >
> > Cheers, Ralf
>
> Hi
>
> ghci is not built unless you are compiling with ghc 4.11 or better. Try
> rebuilding ghc using the 5.00 version that you have just built.
>

And to get a usable system, I've found that you have to compile it with
itself again - i.e. compile it three times.  Unless I bootstrap to stage
3, recompilation is hopelessly confused: compile a program from scratch -
no problem, but make a simple modification, then recompile, and you're
likely to get all kinds of strange linker errors.

--Jeff