GHC from CVS

Julian Seward (Intl Vendor) v-julsew at microsoft.com
Tue Apr 10 11:36:24 EDT 2001


| 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.

Wa?!  We've worked correctly for months with using stage2
bootstraps.  If stage2 /= stage3, something is seriously
wrong.  

Can you send some details of the kinds of problems you get?

J




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