type class problem / GHC bug

[Brandon Michael Moore]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

> | Also, I tried to update and rebuild, but the makefiles seem to have
> the
> | dependencies wrong or something. I compiles THSyntax.hs by hand, then
> ran
> | into some trouble with files that needed some modules from GHCI trying
> | (and dying) to build before the ghci files.Is there a guide to
> building
> | GHC from CVS anywhere? I had the same problem with alex, but that's
> | small enough to build by hand.
>
> Should be ok... are you sure you are up to date?  Make sure you give
> "-d" to cvs update, so you get the new TH subdirectory of
> Haskell-src/Language/Haskell

I've done a clean rebuild, which fails at
HscTypes (in compiler/main) which depends on ByteCodeAsm (in
compiler/ghci), which hasn't been built yet. It looks like ghci
may be missed in dependency generation, based on grep
not finding ghci in .depend-1.