build failure for 6.10.1, missing ghcautoconf.h

[Simon Marlow]

Conal Elliott wrote:
> I just tried to build 6.10.1 from the source tarball 
> (http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.10.1/ghc-6.10.1-src.tar.bz2) (plus 
> extralibs) on Ubuntu 8.10, building with ghc-6.11.  I got the following 
> error:
> 
>     Configuring ghc-bin-6.10.1...
>     /home/conal/downloads/ghc-6.10.1/libraries/cabal-bin 
> /usr/local/bin/ghc 
> /home/conal/downloads/ghc-6.10.1/libraries/bootstrapping.conf build     
> --distpref dist-stage1 --ghc-option=-H32m --ghc-option=-O  
> --ghc-option=-H32m  --ghc-option=-O
>     Preprocessing executables for ghc-bin-6.10.1...
>     Building ghc-bin-6.10.1...
> 
>     In file included from Main.hs:14:0:
> 
>     
> /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.11.20081103/ghc-6.11.20081103/include/HsVersions.h:23:0:
>          error: ../includes/ghcautoconf.h: No such file or directory
>     make[2]: *** [build.stage.1] Error 1
>     make[1]: *** [build.stage.1] Error 2
>     make: *** [stage1] Error 1
>     conal at compy-doble:~/downloads/ghc-6.10.1$
> 
> Is this problem known?  Does it come from building 6.10.1 with 6.11?

I didn't see a followup to this.  Conal, are you still seeing this?  I 
don't have any idea what's going on, and we don't see this on our Windows 
builds, but we can certainly investigate further.

Cheers,
	Simon