Rebuilding GHC on Mac OSX PPC

[Simon Marlow]

Joel Reymont wrote:
> I'm building ghc 6.4.2 from CVS on Mac PPC and get the error below.  Any 
> clues?
> 
> ==fptools== make boot - --no-print-directory -r;
> in /Users/zomariya/Work/fptools/ghc/lib/compat
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ../../../glafp-utils/mkdependC/mkdependC -f .depend    -I. -Iinclude - 
> I../../includes  -- -O -I. -Iinclude    -- cbits/directory.c cbits/ 
> rawSystem.c
> /opt/local/bin/ghc -M -optdep-f -optdep.depend  -osuf o -optdep-- 
> exclude-module=System.Directory.Internals   -H16m -O -I. -Iinclude - 
> Rghc-timing -ignore-package Cabal -I../../../libraries -fglasgow-exts  
> -no-recomp Compat/Directory.hs Compat/RawSystem.hs Distribution/ 
> Compat/FilePath.hs Distribution/Compat/ReadP.hs Distribution/ 
> Compiler.hs Distribution/GetOpt.hs Distribution/ InstalledPackageInfo.hs 
> Distribution/License.hs Distribution/ Package.hs 
> Distribution/ParseUtils.hs Distribution/Version.hs  
> Language/Haskell/Extension.hs
> Distribution/Compat/FilePath.hs:2: error: Cabal/Distribution/Compat/ 
> FilePath.hs: No such file or directory
> <<ghc: 14349576 bytes, 3 GCs, 94444/94444 avg/max bytes residency (1  
> samples), 15M in use, 0.00 INIT (0.00 elapsed), 0.06 MUT (0.22  
> elapsed), 0.02 GC (0.04 elapsed) :ghc>>
> make[3]: *** [depend] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [boot] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [boot] Error 1
> make: *** [build] Error 1

ghc/lib/compat/Distribution/Compat/FilePath.hs #include's 
Cabal/Distribution/Compat/FilePath.hs, which it is supposed to find by virtue of 
the -I../../../libraries arg passed to ghc.

So does Cabal/Distribution/Compat/FilePath.hs exist relative to libraries in 
your tree?

Cheers,
	Simon