installing ghc without already having ghc

[Jessica Brennan [staff]]

> Anything we can help with?

I was able to get a binary for netbsd20 working. However with building it 
I get a few errors. So I tried doing the cross compiling an unregistered 
version, but I get the same errors in the same spot.

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==fptools== gmake all -wr;
  in /devel/build/NetBSD/ghc/ghc-6.4/ghc/compiler
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test: unknownunknown: bad number
test: unknownunknown: bad number
test: unknownunknown: bad number
test: unknownunknown: bad number
test: unknownunknown: bad number
test: unknownunknown: bad number
test: unknownunknown: bad number
/usr/local/bin/ghc -H16m -O -H32m  -istage1/utils  -istage1/basicTypes 
-istage1/types  -istage1/hsSyn  -istage1/prelude  -istage1/rename 
-istage1/typecheck  -istage1/deSugar  -istage1/coreSyn 
-istage1/specialise  -istage1/simplCore  -istage1/stranal  -istage1/stgSyn 
-istage1/simplStg  -istage1/codeGen  -istage1/main  -istage1/profiling 
-istage1/parser  -istage1/cprAnalysis  -istage1/compMan 
-istage1/ndpFlatten  -istage1/iface  -istage1/cmm -Istage1 
-DOMIT_NATIVE_CODEGEN -cpp -fglasgow-exts -fno-generics -Rghc-timing -I. 
-IcodeGen -InativeGen -Iparser -package posix -fvia-C -recomp -Rghc-timing 
-O -fasm -H16M '-#include "hschooks.h"' -i../lib/compat    -c 
utils/PrimPacked.lhs -o stage1/utils/PrimPacked.o  -ohi 
stage1/utils/PrimPacked.hi

utils/PrimPacked.lhs:244:
     Warning: foreign declaration uses deprecated non-standard syntax

utils/PrimPacked.lhs:248:
     Warning: foreign declaration uses deprecated non-standard syntax

utils/PrimPacked.lhs:251:
     Warning: foreign declaration uses deprecated non-standard syntax

utils/PrimPacked.lhs:254:
     Warning: foreign declaration uses deprecated non-standard syntax

utils/PrimPacked.lhs:257:
     Warning: foreign declaration uses deprecated non-standard syntax
ghc-6.2.1: panic! (the `impossible' happened, GHC version 6.2.1):
         This compiler was built without a native code generator
     Use -fvia-C instead

Please report it as a compiler bug to glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org,
or http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/.


<<ghc: 52317700 bytes, 11 GCs, 1196258/2344568 avg/max bytes residency (2 
samples), 17M in use, 0.00 INIT (0.00 elapsed), 1.96 MUT (2.21 elapsed), 
0.26 GC (0.27 elapsed) :ghc>>

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I tried using -fvia-C however I don't think I was using it correctly.

-Jessica

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