[Haskell-cafe] GHC7 build problem

[Edward Z. Yang]

It appears the build is still broken. Sorry! Please stand by, or roll
back the last set of commits.

Edward

Excerpts from Scott Lawrence's message of Sat Jun 11 12:44:18 -0400 2011:
> Trying to compile GHC7 from source (as the ubuntu repository is still on
> GHC6), I came across the following error in the final phase:
> 
> libraries/base/GHC/ST.lhs:78:1:
>     You cannot SPECIALISE `forever'
>       because its definition has no INLINE/INLINABLE pragma
>       (or its defining module `Control.Monad' was compiled without -O)
> 
> This was after:
> 
>   git clone [...]
>   ./sync-all get
>   perl boot
>   ./configure
>   make
> 
> Is there some problem with trying to build GHC7 on a machine with GHC6,
> or did I just get the build procedure wrong (the last line of the error
> looks like a hint that I did).
>