Error building ghc 6.5

[Stepan Golosunov]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:42:03AM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> Stepan Golosunov wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:42:27PM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> >
> >>Stepan Golosunov wrote:
> >>
> >>>Is ghc from darcs.haskell.org/ghc supposed to be buildable with ghc
> >>>6.2.2 ? I am getting the following error:
> >>>
> >>>utils/Encoding.hs: unknown flags in  {-# OPTIONS #-} pragma: _GHC
> >>
> >>I fixed that today.
> >
> >
> >Now it fails with
> >
> >utils/FastString.lhs:355: Variable not in scope: `peekCAStringLen'
> 
> Interesting - what version of GHC are you using to bootstrap with?

6.2.2, Debian stable.
I also tried to bootstrap with december's version of ghc 6.5, it fails with
parser/Lexer.x:561:12: lexical error in string/character literal

BTW, I have to configure with --disable-alut --disable-openal to prevent
build failure in OpenAL (wrong type for NumSamples in
libraries/OpenAL/Sound/OpenAL/ALC/Capture.hs, IIRC)