installing ghc without already having ghc

Jessica Brennan [staff] jib at panix.com
Mon Apr 11 11:44:27 EDT 2005


> 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.

cd H/ghc && make boot && make
in section 10.2.1 of the build guide.

Actually I just double checked and I don't get those lines of the error 
when doing cross-compiling. 
Sorry grabbed the first set of errors I saw. It is the same minus those 
test messages for the cross-compiling:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
==fptools== gmake all -r;
  in /devel/build/NetBSD/ghc/ghc-6.4-host/ghc/compiler
------------------------------------------------------------------------

/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 unix -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: 52315324 bytes, 11 GCs, 1196668/2345464 avg/max bytes residency (2 
samples), 17M in use, 0.00 INIT (0.00 elapsed), 1.94 MUT (2.99 elapsed), 
0.25 GC (0.30 elapsed) :ghc>>

-Jessica

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jib at panix.com
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