Unable to compile ghc from darcs

[Donnie Jones]

Hello Simon and Colin,

This information is available on the Prequisites page of the GHC wiki;
however, it's buried at the bottom of the page.  I have updated the
page to mention that a stable release version of GHC is needed when
setting up for Linux and Windows, and I have changed the "Other"
section to be called "Details" since this section describes in detail
the software necessary for building GHC.

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Prerequisites

Hope this helps other users in the future.
--
Donnie Jones

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>    Simon> Are you using a build tree made with lndir?  If you, you
>>    Simon> probably want to link the _darcs directory from your source
>>    Simon> tree into your build tree.  This will enable configure to
>>    Simon> generate a more accurate version number, which will
>>    Simon> probably fix the compile problem with Haddock.
>>    >>    >> I don't think so. I am just typing ./configure and make within
>>    >> the source tree (the parent of the _darcs directory). Is this
>>    >> bad?
>>
>>    Simon> No, that should be fine.  The Haddock build error indicates
>>    Simon> that either your Haddock sources are out of date with
>>    Simon> respect to your GHC sources, or Haddock thinks your GHC is
>>    Simon> a different version than it really is.
>>
>>    Simon> What GHC are you using to bootstrap with, BTW?
>>
>> 6.11.20090319 (formerly bootstrapped from 6.10.1).
>
> Ah, there's your problem.  In general you can't bootstrap GHC using a
> development snapshot, we only support building using fixed released
> versions.
>
> Cheers,
>        Simon
>
>
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