installing ghc without already having ghc

[Simon Marlow]

On 11 April 2005 16:25, Jessica Brennan [staff] wrote:

>> 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

Which step of the bootstrap is this?  It looks like the configure script
has failed to detect the version of GHC installed on your system.

Cheers,
	Simon