Building 5.0 from CVS needs Happy 1.9

[Alastair Reid]

Running configure in the current fptools snapshot requires Happy 1.9:

  checking for happy... /home/reid/local/bin/happy
  checking for version of happy... configure: error: Happy version 1.9 or later is required to compile GHC.

but, silly me, I only have Happy 1.8:

  $ happy --version
  Happy Version 1.8 Copyright (c) 1993-1996 Andy Gill, Simon Marlow (c) 1997-2000 Simon Marlow

Is there an official way to get round this or shall I just hack the
configure script to omit the check and then make sure I bootstrap
happy before I try to bootstrap ghc?

This seems to happen every time happy gets updated.  Could you add a
description of the solution to the "how to use CVS" instructions
please?


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Alastair Reid        reid at cs.utah.edu        http://www.cs.utah.edu/~reid/