compiling GHC with a custom path to GCC

[Simon Marlow]

On 17 February 2005 11:12, Remi Turk wrote:

> when compiling the new ghc pre-releases made my gcc 2.95.3 die
> with "internal compiler error", I tried to compile it with gcc
> 3.4.3 (or rather, I thought it compiled with 3.4.1, and when that
> died, compiled+installed gcc 3.4.3, tried again, say it die again
> and only then noticed it was actually still using 2.95.3 ;) but
> had quite some difficulty to actually get it to compile with, in
> my case, /usr/local/bin/gcc3
> 
> When using the following command-line
> 
> CC=gcc3 CXX=g++3 nice ./configure --enable-hopengl
> --prefix=/var/tmp/ghc --with-gcc=/usr/local/bin/gcc3 
> 
> stage1 still used gcc 2.95.3 to compile stage2 (okay, for --with-gcc
> that's documented) 

Really?  --with-gcc should set the gcc for stage1, AFAIK.  Is there a
bug here?

I've noticed gcc 2.95 crashing on my FreeBSD box too.  I should look
into whether there's a workaround, otherwise we're hosed on FreeBSD 4.x.

Cheers,
	Simon