installing ghc without already having ghc

[Simon Marlow]

On 08 April 2005 17:20, Jessica Brennan wrote:

> 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.

Anything we can help with?

Cheers,
	Simon