4.08.2 fails to install on sparc

Malcolm Wallace Malcolm.Wallace at cs.york.ac.uk
Tue Feb 13 12:28:36 EST 2001


> I don't understand this.  Since the binary bundle does not
> include any source code, how can it start to compile bits of
> itself at installation time?

That puzzled me too.  It's egg-on-face time.  (But whose face? :-)
After unbundling the binary package, I cd'd to the fptools directory,
just like the installation instructions on the web say.

But, oops, the tar file *actually* unpacked into a directory called
ghc-4.08.2, which I didn't notice.

The fptools directory in which I was doing a 'make install' was
a relic from some other build some other time.

Can I change my plea to 'documentation bug', your honour?

Regards,
    Malcolm




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