GHC 6.8.3's source is unusable?

[Magicloud]

I see.... So 6.8.3 is not portable....
So in my company-customed-linux box, ghc is nothing to me?
Any way I can use it?

Austin Seipp wrote:
> Excerpts from Magicloud Magiclouds's message of Sun Sep 21 21:19:00 -0500 2008:
>   
>> Hi,
>>     I want to compile ghc on my office box, which does not have any 
>> binary ghc exist.
>>     
>
> First, porting with an unregistered build is currently supported from
> GHC 6.4 to GHC 6.6 - it does not work in 6.8 nor will it work in 6.10
> (ghc is getting a new build system and other nice stuff so hopefully
> it will be in 6.12.)
>
> Try with something like
>
> http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.4.2/ghc-6.4.2-src.tar.bz2
>
> Of course, you must be able to build 6.4.2 on your host machine as
> well - if you are using Linux this shouldn't be a problem.
>
> Austin
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