Problems building ghc-current

[Peter Simons]

Volker Stolz writes:

 > [STABLE branch]

Does the »STABLE« branch contain the meta-haskell extensions already?
Because this was the reason I wanted to run the CVS version in the
first place. :-)

Oh, and I have news: The build does not work yet, unfortunately. It
fails here:

 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | ==fptools== make all - --no-print-directory -r;
 |  in /usr/local/src/ghc-current/hdirect/examples/math
 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | ghc -H16m -O -fglasgow-exts -fno-prune-tydecls -package lang \
 |     -package hdirect -c Math.hs -o Math.o -ohi Math.hi
 | ghc-5.04.3: unknown package name: hdirect

I commented out the lines

 | ifneq "$(NoEamples)" "YES"
 | SUBDIRS += examples
 | endif

in »hdirect/Makefile« (»make NoEamples=YES« didn't help, for whatever
reason) and this fixed the problem.

Only to reveal:

 | make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/ghc-current/hood'
 | make[1]: *** No rule to make target `boot'.  Stop.
 | make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/ghc-current/hood'

So I erased the »hood« directory altogether and got until here:

 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | ==fptools== make all - --no-print-directory -r;
 |  in /usr/local/src/ghc-current/nofib/imaginary/exp3_8
 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | HC = ../../../ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace
 | HC_OPTS = -H16m -O -O -Rghc-timing -H32m -hisuf p_hi -hisuf p_hi -hcsuf p_hc -osuf p_o -prof
 | RUNTEST_OPTS = -ghc-timing +RTS -H10m -K10m -RTS
 | ==nofib_p== exp3_8: time to compile Main follows...
 | ../../../ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace -H16m -O -O -Rghc-timing -H32m -hisuf p_hi -hisuf p_hi -hcsuf p_hc -osuf p_o -prof -c Main.hs -o Main.p_o
 | make[4]: time: Command not found

Erasing »nofib« took care of this problem.

This is really fun. :-)

Peter