Error building ghc 6.5

[Simon Marlow]

Stepan Golosunov wrote:
> 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)

I've just checked in a fix for building with GHC 6.2.2.

Cheers,
	Simon