ghc-5.04.3-1.src.rpm -i

Serge D. Mechveliani mechvel@botik.ru
Thu, 15 May 2003 10:50:25 +0400


Thanks for the help, 
we have built it once more, with interpreter.
And its  ghci  seems to treat better the module import/export items.



On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:08:44PM +1000, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
> "Simon Marlow" <simonmar@microsoft.com> wrote,
> 
> > > There's a hidden gotcha in the rpm spec file (the file which gives 
> > > instructions for building) - it only does a stage1 build, 
> > > whereas ghci 
> > > needs a stage2 build.  This is OK as long as it's understood by rpm 
> > > builders that they need to build binary rpms using a previous install 
> > > of 5.04.3.  We could probably trick up the spec file to be clever and 
> > > trigger a stage2 build if it's necessary.
> > 
> > For version 6.0, let's have the spec file do a stage2 build by default.
> > It's much easier these days, you only need one source tree and just
> > saying "make" at the top-level will cause a stage2 build to happen.
> 
> Yes, good point.
> 
> Cheers,
> Manuel
>