installing ghc without already having ghc

[Jessica Brennan [staff]]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Tim Smith wrote:

> On 2005 Apr 07, Jessica Brennan [staff] <jib at panix.com> wrote:
>> I am trying to install ghc-6.4 on netbsd20. I read through the install
>> instructions, however they say you need a working copy of ghc already.
>
> I'd probably look here first:
>
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/lang/ghc/README.html
>
> I expect that package should work for you; even if it doesn't, you
> should be able to use the work done there as a good starting point.

Thanks with that binary I was able to build the program that I needed, 
though I still wasn't able to build ghc from the source.

-Jessica

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