[Haskell-cafe] Can I build and install GHC 6.10.1 without previous installed ghc

[Wang, Chunye (NSN - CN/Beijing)]

Hi All,
 
 
       I have our own Linux distribution installed in my server. 
       it is based on RedHat 9.0. Because it is the server, I can 
       not update it to any other linux distribution

       Here is my situation, I have no machine with any version of ghc
installed. 

       This is what I did

% wget http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.10.1/ghc-6.10.1-src.tar.bz2
% wget
http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.10.1/ghc-6.10.1-src-extralibs.tar.bz2
% tar -jxf ghc-6.10.1-src-extralibs.tar.bz2 
%tar -jxvf ghc-6.10.1-src.tar.bz2 
% cd ghc-6.10.1
 % sh boot
grep: packages: No such file or directory
Booting .
Booting libraries/base
Booting libraries/directory
/usr/share/aclocal/libgcrypt.m4:23: warning: underquoted definition of
AM_PATH_LIBGCRYPT
  run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
  or see
http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
/usr/share/aclocal/ao.m4:9: warning: underquoted definition of
XIPH_PATH_AO
Booting libraries/editline
Booting libraries/network
Booting libraries/old-time
Booting libraries/process
Booting libraries/regex-posix
Booting libraries/time
Booting libraries/unix

% ./configure
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Canonicalised to: x86_64-unknown-linux
checking for ghc... no
checking for ghc-pkg matching ... no
checking for ghc-pkg... no
checking whether ghc has editline package... no
checking for nhc... no
checking for nhc98... no
checking for hbc... no
checking for ld... /usr/local/bin/ld
configure: error: GHC is required unless bootstrapping from .hc files.

I know http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Prerequisites
said that GHC 6.6 is required to build and install the GHC 6.10.1
So I try to follow the instructions
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting.
Because I don't have any ghc installed in any machine. I have to use the
"Porting GHC to a new platform "

%./configure --enable-hc-boot --enable-hc-boot-unregisterised
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Canonicalised to: x86_64-unknown-linux
checking for ghc... no
checking for ghc-pkg matching ... no
checking for ghc-pkg... no
checking whether ghc has editline package... no
checking for nhc... no
checking for nhc98... no
checking for hbc... no
checking for ld... /usr/local/bin/ld
checking for path to top of build tree... ./configure: line 2733: -v0:
command not found
./configure: line 2737: utils/pwd/pwd: No such file or directory
configure: error: cannot determine current directory

I think it is because the utils/pwd/pwd.hs is not compiled and linked
into the ``pwd''.
So I create a bash version of pwd

#!/bin/bash
pwd 

And m make it executeble, chmod +x utils/pwd/pwd 

Then I try to run the  ./configure --enable-hc-boot
--enable-hc-boot-unregisterised again

%./configure --enable-hc-boot --enable-hc-boot-unregisterised again
%cd includes
%make 
%cd ..

Finnally, I found I still need ghc is intalled on the host machine. 

%perl --version

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%make --version
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%autoconf --version
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%automake --version
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Best Regards 
Chunye Wang <chunye.wang at nsn.com>