How to install ghc/happy on Sparc from source?

[Frank Steiner]

Hi,

I need to install a recent ghc version on a Sparc running
Solaris. I cannot use the precompiled binaries as I don't
have access to /usr/local and it seems that this path is
hard-compiled into the binaries.

So I tried with the source package for ghc 4.08. It told
me it needs "happy" to compile. So I downloaded happy 1.9,
again the sources, for the same reason.
Now happy tells me, it needs ghc 4.02 or newer to compile.
On http://www.haskell.org I could only find ghc 4.06 in the
"older releases" section. And ghc 4.06 again needs happy :-/

So what can I do to compile ghc from source on a Sparc Solaris
machine without having an earlier version of ghc installed
and without access to /usr/local?

Can someone give me some hints?

Thanks :-)

Best regards,
Frank

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