ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6 Release Candidate

[Simon Marlow]

Christian Maeder wrote:
> Simon Marlow schrieb:
> 
>>Only a week late, we are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase
>>for GHC 6.6.
>>
>>    Snapshots beginning with 6.5.20060831 are release candidates for 6.6
>>
>>Download snapshots from here:
>>
>>  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/
> 
> 
> I've downloaded the source bundle ghc-6.5.20060918-src.tar.bz
> 
> After ./configure and make, I realized that I have no root permissions
> for installation. So called
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/local/home/maeder/ghc-6.5
> 
> followed by "make" and "make install" only to find out that
> 
> /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.5.20060918/ghc-6.5.20060918
> 
> cannot be found by my /local/home/maeder/ghc-6.5/bin/ghc (in line 5).
> 
> What do I have to clean after "configure" with a new prefix? (I hope not
> everything. And I hope it works at all with a different prefix)

I think this is just because you tried to re-configure with a new prefix after 
the first failed installation, and the (slightly hacky) binary distribution 
Makefile didn't know to re-generate the scripts.  If you unpacked the 
distribution and tried from scratch with a new prefix, it should work.

Cheers,
	Simon