Circular dependency between the compiler and TH?

[Joel Reymont]

On Aug 21, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Simon Marlow wrote:

> GHC is trying to build GHCI in stage 1, because it thinks you have  
> a compatible compiler.  In fact, you have a slightly older 6.5  
> installed.  However (as I think I mentioned before) we don't  
> officially support building GHC using a random snapshot, because it  
> would be impractical to do so.

I'm not sure I understand this. How do you guys work then? Do you  
always build ghc 6.5 using ghc 6.4?

What about the time-honored technique of bootstrapping using yourself?

> As a workaround, you can 'make GhcWithInterpreter=NO' in compiler/  
> when building stage 1.

Still doesn't build after make clean in compiler and then a no-ghci  
make:

/usr/local/bin/ghc -H16m -O  -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/ 
ndpFlatten  -istage1/iface  -istage1/cmm  -istage1/nativeGen -Istage1  
-cpp -fglasgow-exts -fno-generics -Rghc-timing -I. -IcodeGen - 
InativeGen -Iparser -package unix -ignore-package lang -recomp -Rghc- 
timing  -H16M '-#include "cutils.h"' -i../compat -ignore-package  
Cabal    -c ghci/ByteCodeAsm.lhs -o stage1/ghci/ByteCodeAsm.o  -ohi  
stage1/ghci/ByteCodeAsm.hi

ghci/ByteCodeAsm.lhs:20:0:
     Failed to load interface for `ByteCodeInstr':
         Could not find module `ByteCodeInstr':
           use -v to see a list of the files searched for
<<ghc: 23420660 bytes, 4 GCs, 111664/111664 avg/max bytes residency  
(1 samples), 16M in use, 0.00 INIT (0.00 elapsed), 0.04 MUT (0.15  
elapsed), 0.02 GC (0.03 elapsed) :ghc>>

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