building ghc from source

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

| And likely unless it has been changed in the last day or so, you'll
run
| into an error building StdDIS.(l)hs in hslibs/win32.  One solution is
to
| import GHC.ForeignPtr (newConcForeignPtr) and replace all uses of
| newForeignPtr with newConcForeignPtr (a better solution would probably
| be to use whatever is appropriate for newForeignPtr, I'd have to
reread
| the FFI spec to see what that is, perhaps nullFunPtr works (guessing
| blindly))

Yes -- but hslibs/win32 should be fixed, or else nuked in favour of
libraries/win32, which Alastair is working on.

Alastair: what's the story on win32 in hslibs/ or libraries/?

Simon