Booting from HC files is completely broken

[Simon Marlow]

> I tried to compile ghc-5.00.2 on a RedHat-7.1 system by booting from
> HC files.  (Actually, I have a ghc-5.00 installed, but apparently some
> programs compiled with it segfault, and this makes compilation of
> ghc-5.00.2 impossible.  Note that I have a working happy-1.10,
> however.)
>=20
> Now it seems that the distrib/hc-build script is broken.

Yes it is, sorry about that.  There are several open bug reports on
SourceForge relating to the broken hc bootstrapping situation.  I'm
working on fixing it, so hopefully the next release will have reliable
hc bootstrapping again.

Your particular problem can be solved by (a) getting the .hs files that
are generated from the .hsc files in the libraries, and (b) making in
ghc/lib/std and hslibs before ghc/utils.  Having the .hs files means you
don't need hsc2hs in order to build the libraries and works around the
chicken/egg problem.

Cheers,
	Simon